Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosovsky's final line of justification then for discouraging student involvement--that the Core will not affect students now enrolled--also proves illogical. This same argument might be applied to the Faculty with equal validity. Professors who will retire next year, assistant professors who will not receive tenure and professors who don't plan to teach Core courses are also unaffected by the Core. Should Rosovsky have barned them from the Faculty debates on the Core Curriculum last year...
...Galbraith makes academics and politicians on all sides squirm nervously whenever he comes out with a new theory. He attacks mercilessly--some would say thoughtlessly--but his work is some of the freshest and most pleasingly controversial of any academic. Critics always find some hole in his argument, but this is not a failing in his work, just a consequence of the fact that he usually tackles brand new intellectual territory...
Restoring draft registration procedures also threatens to increase the likelihood of United States intervention in foreign wars. Knowing that manpower is available would free planners in the Defense Department (and maybe even in the White House) to develop plans for large-scale intervention. It is not a very hard argument to follow: it's easier to play bully when you're the strongest guy on the block...
Meanwhile, McCloskey and others advance the argument that the AVF is a serious financial liability. They cite studies showing that the Soviet Union allots only 23 per cent of its defense budget for manpower while 56 per cent of the military budget in the United States provides a less-than-adequate military force. If money is the heart of the problem--as they say it is--reinstituting registration procedures is a long and unnecessarily tortuous path to relieving financial strain. With an additional $2.5 billion earmarked for the AVF, the Defense Department could meet it's emergency manpower requirements...
...committee listed several propositions it considered "basic, if not axiomatic" in examining university-corporate relations. Because the University is foremost a "center of free inquiry," the committee stated, it should maintain a neutral stance on political and social matters except those "where there is no longer room for argument among people who accept our basic socio-economic political system." One such unarguable issue, the committee stated was racism. Harvard adopted an official position of "hostility (whether in the University's role as center of learning, contractor, employer, or investor) to anything smacking of racism...