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...campus, radicals accuse the University of being the lackey of a corrupt, imperialist, racist society. They demand a cessation of those practices which they consider to be key to maintaining such a society. They ask the University to take the lead in remaking that society. The administration counters with the argument that it is not proper for a university to become involved in politics. They see a university as a free area where any ideas are welcome and all are free to partake of in intellectual pursuits. They see the radical demands and tactics as a threat to this "free...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: A Review of the Year Five Issues That Divided The University | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...Nader's Raider called the CRIMSON from Washington last summer and announced that they had discovered scandals in the Agriculture, Department bigger than Billy Sol Estes. He said that half of the Ag Dept. was so corrupt that they'd have to be fired...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: From the Vietnamese We'll Have to Learn To Create a Society In Which To Live | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...many areas, however, ARVN's progress is still disappointing, and not even the intense euphoria of the Cambodian excursion can overcome low pay, corruption and lackluster leadership. True, U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird began hinting last week that "the success of Vietnamization" could permit a speedup in U.S. withdrawal plans; instead of pulling out 150,000 troops by next spring, as President Nixon announced in April, the U.S. might bring home as many as 195,000. But the fact is that Vietnamization is six months behind in some respects. A high-command reorganization that was supposed to root...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Cambodia: A Cocky New ARVN | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...Winkleman (Max von Sydow) is an inhabitant of that vital Bergmanian metaphor, an isle off the Swedish coast. Bearded, racked, his Christlike face appears to be a skull in rented skin. Indeed, his humanity is as transient as his lust. Andreas' only "friend" is Elis (Erland Josephson), a corrupt architect who shrewdly offers Andreas his money and haplessly lends him his frigid wife Eva (Bibi Andersson). She proves but a temporary distraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Enigma Variations | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...read Wednesday's (May 27) CRIMSON with utter incredulity. Are we so morally, spiritually, and intellectually corrupt as to allow a small group of "radical students" to decide that Steven Kelman should not speak at this year's commencement because they happen not to like his views? Ubinam gentium sumus...

Author: By Joel Porte, | Title: The Mail SPLIT DOOR PANELS | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

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