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...only political action of the year, the council drafted a letter to President Neil L. Rudenstine "affirm[ing] the council's committed support" for the University's stance against the ban on homosexuals in the military. The letter, written after Rudenstine defended the choice of Gen. Colin L. Powell as Commencement speaker, was approved nearly four hours into the council's last scheduled meeting of the year...
...condones but also encourages the acceptance of violence. We are ashamed that Harvard has chosen to honor Powell's achievements. To honor Powell is to honor the institutionalizing of killing. Our university occupies a unique position of leadership in our society and should have found a speaker whose actions affirm a respect for human life. Through its choice, Harvard has reinforced the societal tendency to valorize military institutions and has denied the importance of searching for peaceful solutions...
Indeed, despite the freshness of his diagnosis of social problems, West's prescriptions for curing them can be vague and hopelessly Utopian. He advocates a "politics of conversion" in which blacks and other oppressed people would "affirm themselves as human beings, no longer viewing their bodies, minds and souls through white lenses and believing themselves capable of taking control of their own destinies." That would translate into a new surge of grass-roots activism, the building of coalitions between now competing groups, and "large-scale public intervention to ensure access to basic social goods." In other words, critics charge, reconstituting...
...council voted to postpone debate on the constitution and to consider a letter to Rudenstine that "affirm[s] the council's committed support" for the University's stance against the ban on homosexuals in the military...
...become clear. First Night attempts to accomplish with light-hearted humor what "The Player" did with dark satire--to blur the distinction between the worlds of illusion and reality. Yet, while "The Player" illustrates the danger of individuals who lose contact with the real world, First Night wants to affirm the beauty of dreams and their power to make lives extraordinary. But First Night sacrifices dream-like surreality to the demands of a fast-paced comedy, and so falls short of its goal...