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From a physician's standpoint, Duke epitomizes current U.S. health-care philosophy: compassion and heroism coupled with financial altruism. But curing medical problems doesn't hinge on the extent of the treatment; it depends on the extent of the disease. Prevention doesn't simply mean administering vitamins to the young; it requires eliminating environmental factors conducive to disease, such as smoking, drugs, improper diet and pollution. Society has become inured to its harmful behavior. This results in the overutilization of medical resources and ever growing expenses, with doctors and hospitals serving as convenient scapegoats. DONALD H. RUDICK, M.D. St. Marys...
While this anecdote speaks to the depth of Red Cross altruism, it may tell more about the woman who had the presence of mind to interrupt her speech for a bit of impromptu fundraising...
Despite these successes, there was one important area in which students got a failing grade. To quote President Bok, "There is no indication that college has had much success in increasing kindness, sympathy, altruism, or friendliness toward others." In fact, students themselves did not report any noticeable improvement in "moral sensitivity or character" during their undergraduate years...
...goal of Berkeley's new policy, which was first used to screen the freshman class that will enter this fall, is to give every applicant more attention so the best can be spotted. But Berkeley is going to that trouble for reasons beyond academic altruism. After one of the biggest affirmative-action fights anywhere in the nation, the University of California board of regents banned race as a factor in admitting this year's class. Fearing a sizable drop in minority enrollment, some supporters of the new plan hoped that the redesigned admissions criteria would sustain campus diversity, without taking...
Then there's that wistful inquiry as to whether one is carrying anyone else's bags--a question that can be of no possible relevance except to the skycaps' union. For, alas, altruism is not yet so endemic that every baggage-encumbered traveler should be suspected of shouldering the burdens of maniacal terrorists disguised as little old ladies with back problems...