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Recent events in Iran and Afghanistan have fueled support for a "new right-wing militarism," which will lead us to the brink of nuclear war, Frank Ackerman, editor of "Dollars and Sense," said last night in the Adams House Common Room...
...Soviet intervention in Afghanistan is a violation of people's sovereignty," Ackerman said, but added he believes the "main issue" is the right wing's manipulation of this concern for the Afghan people to increase defense spending...
American policy is aggressive and expansionist, while Soviet policy is basically defensive, Ackerman said, adding that the primary objective of socialists is to oppose higher defense spending and the draft, which has "no place in a just society...
...Office of the Arts, as it is today, Mayman explains, was spawned by two events: the merger and by the recommendations of Bok's 1973 committee to review the state of the arts at the University. The committee, headed by James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, suggested that the presidents create an office which might eliminate the "confusion and diffusion" of the arts at the newly merged schools...
...Ackerman is joined by Claire Malardi, head of the Harvard-Radcliffe dance program, who sees the lack of course credit as a major drawback in the dance program. "Because the kids don't get credit for what they do in the studio, it inevitably takes backseat to their graded classes," she says. "Time and energy-wise, the teacher is up against a real battle." Still, Malardi praises the dance program and the students for their dedication and admits that one benefit of the no credit policy is the near-total absence of pressure and competition. In the long run, however...