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Last year, the freshmen once again voted to break the boycott, only to change their minds after a consciousness-raising effort by upperclassmen. Some people consider the boycott question a paper tiger, since the CRR has not needed to meet for several years. However, recent student protests are making the...
...Lamont scorns a professor at Brown who taught students about espionage but "never asked (the students) to consider the morality of it all." That professor is Lyman Kirkpatrick, former executive director of the CIA and perhaps the most moral man ever to serve in a high echelon there. Moral considerations were central to the course, and moral discussions were so long and so frequent that someone half-jokingly suggested the course be offered in the Philosophy Department. Welcome to journalism, fella...
Part of the problem stems from the people Lamont seems to have talked to, or enjoyed talking to, or remembered talking to. This man has radar for the asshole and sonar for the emotional cripple. Consider this quote from a Harvard sophomore: "Taking on a girl is like taking on...
The widespread whining about Washington's raising of thermostats to a mandatory 78°F suggests that people no longer think of interior coolness as an amenity but consider it a necessity, almost a birthright, like suffrage. The existence of such a view was proved last month when a...
Not all, of course, consider bottled mineral water the nectar of the '70s. "I've tried Perrier and Poland but I don't like the bubbles," admits Lament Richardson, who works for a major New York water supplier. "I'll stick to the sink." For Chicago...