Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increase in the off-campus fee, which the Corporation approved last week, is based on the questionable argument of "implied subsidization." There are, the argument goes, certain house services -- the offices of House Masters and Senior Tutors, house libraries and common rooms, and the house athletic program--whose benefits students both on and off-campus share, but whose cost, in the past, has fallen exclusively on the students in the houses. Hence the "subsidization" of off-campus by on-campus students for common services, which the $125 raise will presumably remedy...
There is a certain logic to this argument. Certainly, the house offices are essential for all students, and all students, whether on or off-campus should share their costs. But just as obvious is the fact that many of the students who move off-campus do so because they are disenchanted with life in the houses and do not want to study in house libraries and play in house sports. Having granted a student permission to live outside of the house system, it is unfair to make him pay for the very house services from which he has clearly dissociated...
...student or a visit to the archives in Washington by a government concentrator-a luxury which ought to come out of the student's pocket, not Faculty of Arts and Sciences funds. It could be argued that computers are becoming a necessity like libraries, but Mosteller prefers not to. "Argument by analogy usually gets one into trouble," he says, dismissing the question with a quiet smile...
Involvement with city ills has already fired considerable debate among businessmen-and the riot report seems certain to sharpen the argument. Chairman George Champion of Chase Manhattan Bank decries "mass do-gooding at the expense of stockholders." Says Chairman Birny Mason Jr. of Union Carbide: "I'm afraid we're going through another phase of promises that will lead to disillusionment." Still, such analysts of the urban crisis as Director Pat Moynihan of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies (TIME cover, July 28) give corporations high marks for their active concern. "Business has reacted more...
ATTACKING the immorality and illegality of the Vietnam war could conceivably shame people into stopping it--but this is unlikely. Human beings are remarkably impervious to the calls of conscience when acting on self-interest. The most fruitful argument, then, is one that attempts to show that the American interest is not, in fact, advanced by the war in Vietnam. Here...