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...change the composition and procedures of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) by breaking the seven-year boycott of the CRR and boring from within, there was some hope that they would be able to force the Faculty either to make significant changes in the CRR or abolish it entirely. At last week's Faculty meeting, the members of the class of 1980 who broke the CRR boycott were able to see the fruits of their labor enacted in Faculty legislation. They could not fail to have been disappointed. As Dean Rosovsky observed, change at Harvard proceeds with glacial...
...academic institution of quality, Harvard must accept its responsibility to meet those individual needs and interests as closely as possible. But under the weight of bureaucracy and tradition and Godly excellence, Harvard does not do much for individuals. Perhaps it is time to abolish some traditions--and attitudes--and probation wouldn't be a bad place to start. But at Harvard, traditions die hard, and behind those nearly inflexible traditions stand attitudes, like shadows...
...different would Iran be in 1979 if the CIA had not intervened. Mossadeq's aims were not as laudable as many now believe: in June and July 1953 he was almost certainly planning to abolish the Iranian parliament. As support slid from beneath his feet he was also being forced to rely unduly on the Iranian Communist Party. The CIA probably replaced one emerging dictator by another but in the long run by doing so it increased hatred of the United States. Kermit Roosevelt would have been saddened. The operation begun with moral fervor to save the Iranians for democracy...
Khomeini wants to abolish the monarchy and replace Bakhtiar's government with a religiously oriented Islamic republic under his rule. He said Thursday the present leadership is illegal "and if they continue, they must be put on trial...
...matter of fact, the Resolution on Rights and Responsibility gives students the right to protest, to demonstrate and to hold whatever opinions they wish. And incidentally, abolishing the CRR does not abolish the Resolution, it just eliminates the students' voice in the process of discipline. The CRR is the only disciplinary body on campus that has student participation--and an equal voice at that. The students have no other voice; advocating the CRR's abolition hurts the students. The AD board, for example, has no student representatives. By advocating the abolition of the CRR, students are embarrassing themselves by implying...