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Dean of the Division Paul C. Martin '51 yesterday mentioned leasing Macintoshes at below-market rates, in lieu of outright sales, as one possible strategy. "It is not our purpose to help students make a quick buck," Martin explains. Alfred A. Pandiscio, associate director of information technology, added that the initial PC's "will probably go to those persons who would make the best use of it," though he did not indicate how such distribution decisions might be made...
This institutionalized buck passing and shoulder shrugging is crippling and leads to sloppy work and decreased productivity in business and the government. A recent series of television commercials showed workers in Detroit plants welding, riveting and painting. They were identified by name and allowed to speak about their work. It is an effective technique. It tells the worker that the company has confidence in him and is proud to let him represent the product he makes. Nothing is worse for morale than the feeling that your job is so rigid and standardized that you are eminently replaceable. If the commercials...
...interesting, although somewhat inverted, example of governmental buck passing occured last fall when President Reagan took personal responsibility for the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut and thus saved any individual officers from disciplinary action. The move was politically correct, but wrong. The officers who based troops in a poorly guarded, multi-story building in the middle of a war should have been hauled out in their underwear. Of course it is difficult to protect troops from determined terrorism--suicide attacks in particular--but that's their job: they made a mistake and should be held accountable...
...dozens of space walks, ventured forth without a lifeline. Only a remarkable jet-powered backpack, which looked like castoff hardware from a science-fiction film, kept the walkers from drifting off into the cosmos. As Shuttle Commander Vance Brand, 52, put it, "They call each other Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers...
Safely back in the cargo bay, McCandless turned over his Buck Rogers contraption to Lieut. Colonel Robert Stewart, 41, the first Army man to journey into space. (Of the two MMUs aboard Challenger, one was always kept in readiness as a spare.) Urged McCandless: "Enjoy it. Have a ball." The hot-rodding Stewart, a former helicopter pilot, took that advice. When he throttled up to a radar-timed speed of .7 m.p.h., Brand warned him to slow down...