Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone concnerned. Students do not live in an oppressed atmosphere and generally approve of the education they receive. But Harvard has some fundamental structural problems suggested by the analogy of the protectors insuring that the organic society that is Harvard remains a constant. The University resists adaptation of basic features of the modern world. Harvard functions corporately instead of democratically. It is structured paternalistically instead of communally. These characteristics seem so obvious, yet so widely ignored. The majority of students and alumni simply relinquish any claim to republican rights when they enter Harvard's gates or receive the University...
...need only lay claim to insight into departmental excellence to silence opposition. But who is it that determines financial priorities, who consensts, and why? Who decides whether a department has achieved its primary objective of educating its students? Why is there no adequate apparatus for some student input into basic decisions? Why is one of America's leading universities still basically feudal in structure...
Inspired by the meticulous regimen of fast-food outlets like McDonald's, Ackerly's Mini Maid operation offers a menu of 22 basic daily cleaning chores that its four-member crews will perform in an average time of 55 minutes for a fee of $39.50 to $49.50. The duties of the blue-and-white-clad cleaning squads -- primarily young mothers and homemakers -- range from washing kitchen floors to scouring porcelain to bed making. Says Ackerly: "We arrive with a smile, we have knowledge, we deliver what is asked of us, and we call back new clients the next...
...religion, and violence is its liturgy to carry it out." More thoughtful observers are less dogmatic. "What causes racism is the most researched question in all of American social science in 80 years," says Thomas Pettigrew, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The basic answer is that people still fear strangers or anyone who looks different, and many nations and ethnic groups (not excluding blacks) suffer the same disease in one form or another...
...Aquino, whose brief presidency has been a perilous struggle to unite the divided country under her popular leadership. The trouble broke less than two weeks before she is to face a major political test: a Feb. 2 plebiscite on a new constitution, drafted by her government. If the basic law, which would supplant the Marcos constitution of 1973, wins the voters' approval, it will not only confirm Aquino in the presidency for a full six-year term but will be widely viewed as an indicator of her popularity and legitimacy. Critics on the left complain the proposed constitution does...