Word: barnette
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real Catch-22," "Barnett said. "Students are very apathetic, and that's because they don't have a channel for their voices. But they can't get a channel for their voices unless they vote...
...student government right now is like an octopus," said Steven N. Barnett, vice president of Dartmouth's Undergraduate Council, when describing the problems with the present system. "It has so many branches," he explained, citing the half dozen councils and committees which represent various factions of the student body. Since the delegates to the campus-wide government are elected at large, he added, they don't know who voted for them and feel responsible to no particular constituency...
...this apathy, then, begs the question: where is the center of Dartmouth life? Is it in fraternities that still provide most of the social life in the tiny New Hampshire town? Is it, as Barnett maintains, on the playing fields and in the libraries? Is it in the handful of students that campaign for changes in the structure of campus life? Or is Dartmouth merely in hibernation after the flareups of the sixties...
Stanford's anthropology chairman, Clifford Barnett, will not discuss the specific causes of dismissal, but says that the Taiwan article was "not the issue." A number of leading scholars familiar with the Stanford investigation agree that the article was not the cause of the expulsion. Says Charles Townes, chairman of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China: "The problem is not one of freedom of speech. It's one of unprofessional behavior...
Prewitt and many other experts, including Stanford's Barnett, agree that Mosher had a right to publish his research. The usual practice, however, is to write an article for a professional journal. Mosher eventually did that, contributing a report, without pictures, to the scholarly Asian Survey journal. A book, titled Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese, will be published by Macmillan in the fall. Says Mosher: "I have an obligation to the Chinese whose lives I shared to document the reality of village life under Communism...