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...stress that the refusal to register for the draft is a deliberate act because the resolution insists the law discriminates against poor and minority students, who will be especially hurt by the denial of funds. This is a fallacious argument Discrimination implies unfair treatment to those who innately belong to a certain group. No one is innately a non-registrant. No one is born into the group of non-registrants. Rather, each individual, regardless of his background, must consciously decide to join that group. There simply is no issue of discrimination...
...Denunciation of the Supreme Court as, in McManus' words, "terrible, a total abomination. It has initiated and continued government intervention into many aspects of our lives where it just doesn't belong." Before the historic desegregation case of 1954. Brown vs Board of Education, racial problems were "being broken down through good will and a recognition of justice. "The United States military was segregated in World War II, but then [racial barriers] were broken down. There was no fanfare, then...
...birth on Jan. 10, he was seen and discussed as a piece of inferior merchandise, an imperfect creature come into the world as damaged goods. The mother disavowed motherhood; the father said "Not mine." Yet there was the child, frail but present. Deposited on the doorstep, he had to belong to someone...
...mechanistic materialism of American society. In comparing Yank, the protagonist, to Oedipus and Hamlet. O'Neill is addressing the oldest theme in history--man's struggle with his own fate. The play, Berlin notes, "is more existential than political, more metaphysical and spiritual than social, Man's desire to belong, his quest for belonging. is the measure of his humanity, even though he tails to belong...
Involuntary off-campus students experience, to a greater or lesser degree depending on personality and circumstance, an isolation from the Harvard community. As members of Dudley House they belong to a strangely amorphous group of undergraduates which is split between those who for one reason or another have chosen to live out-side the College and those who have been forced to do so. The former rarely seek association within the House, and the latter, resentful of the stigma of the outcast, tend to stay away unless forced to visit for administrative reasons...