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Kenneth O. Dike, Mellon Professor of African History, said yesterday he might teach a Core survey course on African civilization in the Foreign Languages and Cultures category in collaboration with several other professors. The course would take an interdisciplinary approach to African culture and would be taught by African historians, anthropologists and linguists, Dike said...
...number of Harvard Faculty members are calling for divestiture. We shall discuss: (1) the ways in which divestiture would contribute to the elimination of apartheid; (2) the viewpoints of prominent South African opponents of apartheid; (3) the costs to Harvard of divestiture; (4) the fallacies in Harvard's present approach...
While a case-by-case approach may appear on its face to be a fair and rational one, in practice it has been a prescription for obfuscation and delay. First, the entire process is dependent on data and information the corporations themselves provide. While most major companies provide information on employment practice, few (if any) are willing to provide information on taxes paid to the South African government, sales of strategic products and services, etc. In fact, corporations are precluded under South African law from disclosing sales to military and law enforcement agencies...
Vastola's performance and approach to the game have been an inspiration to the rest of the squad. Coach Zivkovic gives Vastola enormous credit. "In each sport the captain is the right-hand man of the coach. Gino is such a captain that I feel like I am his right arm instead of he mine. He is by far the best captain I've met in the U.S. and I've been involved in intercollegiate fencing for 20 years...
...doctrinal attitude toward children-for or against-is not the prevailing approach of most Americans. Michael Novak suggests that only the "idea elite," the 10% of the population in well educated, upper-income groups whose work centers on education, the professions, communications or some such -may harbor ideological or even environmental biases against children. That group could not have accounted by itself for the almost uninterrupted decline in the U.S. birth rate in the 70s. It is very likely that the economics of child rearing has had much to do with the trend toward smaller families, which has been encouraged...