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Last year's losing issue was ROTC, In 1989, students debated the issue in classes and dining halls. But the students body barely peeped this year when the issue returned to the Administration's front burner. The hot subjects last year or at least last semester, were Harvard Law School protests and campus race relations...
Darling is right for pointing out that sexual politics, overanalysis and AIDS have put romance on the back burner for many students. It seems to me, however, that these reasons are only part of the answer...
Public opinion responds to threats, not to opportunities. It is easy to mobilize support to meet a clear threat but difficult to rally it to seize a fleeting opportunity. If our leaders put foreign policy on the back burner until world events produce a new threat, our moment of opportunity will have vanished...
With Harvard's porous defense near the league's cellar, yielding (70.4 ppg), this could be a barn-burner...
...election year, when the economy is the most salient issue, it would seem that the environment might be pushed to the back burner. Senator Albert Gore Jr. '69, on the other hand, has tried to prevent this neglect by writing a book titled Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit...