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...most professors, and some of their department chairmen, feel that small classes are important. "The university has an intellectual commitment to various subjects," says George G. Grabowiez, chairman of the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, which this year is offering one single-person course. "Even though it may not be as popular, a course that attracts even one student may have great intellectual validity...
...brief weeks in 1984, Gary Hart, running an outsider campaign, was the sworn enemy of the so-called Democratic establishment. Most state chairmen attacked Hart for scorning traditional Democratic values to run a campaign of "new ideas...
...after seeing the candidate who carried their standard trounced by a well-packaged Reagan, the chairmen have come around to Hart's point-of-view. They apparently see his tactic--simply evoking a nostalgic sense of the past--as the weapon of choice in the political battles of the future, rather than an outright fight against Reaganite principles...
...best of Hart's new ideas was to employ a capable hairdresser, and the worst of them was to avoid saying anything of substance. It's possible to see Hart as proof that the Democrats could run the kind of soulless campaign Reagan has mastered and which the state chairmen apparently want...
...CHAIRMEN SENSED that the Democrats of '86 and '88 and '92 would have to see the "Reagan Phenomenon" as a lesson in the need for neat packaging a keen sense of the symbolic they were probably right. We should be concerned that the Democratic National Committee sees its search for a symbol to replace the familiar donkey as good preparation for the upcomming campaign...