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...Coaches carp about the haphazardness built into Harvard's limited recruiting procedure. "We do less recruiting than any Lvy school," football coach Joseph Restic says, adding, "There's a number of schools we can no longer compete with." Restic senses that the problem of competition is growing more acute, particularly with worsening economic conditions, and sees "no easy solution...
Counter-demonstrators pestered every major demonstration of the sixties; at D.C., there aren't many, but they're of a different, more virulent breed. Members of the Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle (CARP), a group which members say owes its "inspiration" to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, began the afternoon heckling. Within an hour, they were jumping out of the crowd and toward the stage, flailing, screaming about Communist aggression, conspiracies, treason. Finally the police come to push them away. "Whose side are you on," one of the Moonies asked the cops. "Yours--but they...
...FRONT PAGE of the World Student Times, the CARP newspaper, features a cartoon of Bella Abzug and Stokeley Carmichael standing in front of the White House lecturing to some hippies. From all sides, Soviet tanks, planes, and aircraft carriers are converging. "Ivan...Let's meet at the big building with the white column. I hear they have a natural food line," one tank commander is saying. "When they've all burned their draft cards, open the curtains and let the tanks roll. We'll say we were invited by the fire commissioner," another Russian responds. Inside the newspaper, a professor...
This blend of new and old was apparent at the Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, where we saw mammoth carp that had been raised from tiny fry in the center's ponds. One innovation: the use of female hormones to encourage spawning. But the biologists there also adhered to the Maoist maxim to "change wastes into treasures and turn harmful into beneficial." They feed the fish animal and even human wastes (after fermentation to kill fecal parasites). Elsewhere, the Chinese are introducing "digesters" (small tanks) that convert biological wastes into methane gas, which in turn powers electrical generators...
There is something inherently suspect about institutionalizing something as spontaneous as humor, and something even obscene in making it a sullen competition for yuks, as the Lampoon has done. The resultant brand of humor, inevitably perhaps, irritates--no, it offends. And by this I don't mean to carp on racism and sexism, although I think these elements are well in evidence in On the Lam. Rather, I mean the sort of comedy that points down, from an affected stance of intellectual or cultural superiority, lacking any sort of humanism or fellow feeling, without any hint that the Lampoon itself...