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ARGUMENTS for screening and rejecting refugees from Indochina who committed atrocities during the war conveniently isolate the refugees from the context of American involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia, and ignore America's responsibility to all of the people it has affected in the course of the war. To refuse to recognize that the U.S. is responsible for all those who fled their homes and who fled Indochina--whether they were high government officials and U.S. employees afraid of "blood-baths," or peasants afraid of the last days of battle or perhaps even more U.S. bombs--is to deny the dominant...
This revelation was confirmed when he returned to India in 1967, and saw his Indian students mindlessly mastering formula without understanding the context of their skills. "The question just had to hit you in the face," he recalls. "What did this have to do with the problems of Indian development?" He picked up Galbraith's The New Industrial State, and found many of his vague concerns about traditional economics and its deficiencies clearly stated. The seeds of discontent were sown. All he needed was hope for something...
Turning my head, I noticed that I was surrounded by students, faculty, and grounds workers. It occurred to me that, within this context, donating blood took on the dimension of a socially leveling process. In such a socially stratified place as Harvard, where each element conforms to its designated position in the hierarchy, it is easy to forget that we are all made of flesh and, of course, blood. Donating blood linked us in a way that no other Harvard function possibly could; the blood of a kitchen worker was worth just as much as that of the most world...
While other senior faculty acknowledge the impact of the immediate events of 1969, they place the occurrences of that year in the context of broader social and educational change. "Student unrest and faculty response were symptomatic of a hardening of attitude that was going on earlier," posits Alan Heimert, chairman of the English Department and master of Eliot House. One of the things particularly bothering students was what they saw as the "dehumanization" of the University beginning in the '50s, with an increased emphasis on research and graduate instruction and a concomitant reduction in the amount of time devoted...
...play had a hypnotically entrancing effect, but there really isn't that much analysis to it. It's a play about Vietnam as a pretext and not an event. That's okay, I guess--just don't expect that it'll take on any important new meanings in the context of the last few days. At Dunster House tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday night at 8:30 p.m., as well as next weekend...