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...People adopt positions, such as "We should extend foreign aid," and "We should encourage the redistribution of land." These are the ways the dilemma of hunger has been approached: We give grain, and governments redistribute land. Obviously, the grain and the land measures are important, but the millions continue to starve. So where does the problem...
...season is amazingly short, and Harvard, which will adopt metric measurements in its home stadium for the first time, wastes no time getting into the thick of things. The team opens today at 1:30 p.m. in the stadium against powerhouse Northeastern. Add this all-out war to Saturday's meeting with the Tigers, in Princeton, and before the season is a week old. Harvard will have run its two toughest dual meets of the season...
...report, the ACSR does little more than present the alternatives the Corporation may choose to adopt in dealing with portfolio companies operating in South Africa. By refusing to urge Harvard to help speed the withdrawal of these companies from South Africa, the committee turns a deaf ear on the will of the majority of Harvard's undergraduates--a will clearly expressed through a variety of petitions, demonstrations, House, freshman and organizational votes. Harvard students are joined in their demands by a host of national and international groups, ranging from the NAACP to the Congressional Black Caucus to the U.N. General...
...task. The ACSR report only pushes the question off into the future, allowing the Corporation to do little or nothing concrete this time around to help move U.S. firms towards withdrawal. The report amounts to little more than an abdication of responsibility by the ACSR, freeing the Corporation to adopt any course of action it desires...
...should consider the Core Curriculum as but one of many proposed solutions to the failure of Gen Ed. It deservedly points out the need for guidance, structure and broad education at Harvard. But we should not adopt a plan that is fundamentally objectionable. A plan the coerces students, instead of leading them, is more likely to foster resentment than academic enthusiasm. The Faculty should reject the Core and renew its search for a Gen Ed replacement...