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...core issue here is that The Crimson, that bastion of '60s throwbacks and "sophisticated" Establishment liberals, seems to have a morbid fear of any conservative movement at Harvard. When some students advocated divestment from companies that do business with the Soviet Union, the same Crimson which keeps the South Africa divestiture movement alive moved quickly to attack divestment from the USSR with haughty and vicious editorials--using the same arguments Derek Bok has used against divestiture from South Africa...
...even in this bastion of liberalism, the SYL has trouble persuading students to take it seriously...
...most significant changes involved the People's Liberation Army, a bastion of reactionary opposition to Deng's economic and political reforms. Defense Minister Zhang Aiping, 75, though widely credited with having helped to modernize the armed forces, was dropped from the Central Committee, leading to speculation that he might soon lose his government post as well. Among other military retirees was Zhang Zhixiu, 67, former commander of Chinese forces along the Vietnamese border. Zhang had reportedly been eager to teach the Hanoi government, a bitter enemy of Peking, a military "lesson," which China had attempted less than successfully...
...told a little but about the Experience when we arrived in the fall of our freshman year. It seemed the idea was to put a lot of people from different backgrounds into one housing system, inculcate a few good liberal values, and let people interact The University, being the bastion of free speech that it is, allows all points of view to be expressed and thus brings us all into contact with "different" ideas According to theory, thus allows us to stretch our imagination to us limits...
...have worked on the Forum are very grateful for the overwhelmingly enthusiastic reaction that most students have expressed for the project. If the enthusiasm continues, then the Forum will continue to offer to undergraduates, not a "bastion of conservatism," but a dynamic opportunity to share the academic achievements of their peers. Jeff Rosen...