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...position of tutor at the house is very like that of the tua kampong in the village. The tua kampong is a government appointed headman. He is chosen for his presumed influence in the community but other criteria also enter into the choice, such as pleasantness of manner and perhaps the ability to write. The tua kampong is primarily an intermediary between the longhouse and an external political power that has no place in the traditional organization of Berawan society. The resident tutor at the co-op is likewise a representative of an outside and alien power, Harvard's housing...
...hardly uncommon in most academic communities. Young assistant professors who are self-professed Marxists often find that their efforts to expose students to radical alternatives as well as traditional, pro-capitalist theories result in failure to receive tenure. Usually the political motivation behind tenure denials is masked by objective criteria (e.g., poor teaching performance, insufficient scholarly publication) that are legally acceptable grounds for dismissal. However, at Boston Stage College as case of tenure has arisen where the mask is so thin it fails to hide what can only be termed a flagrant violation of academic freedom and first amendment rights...
There is indeed an element of bitter irony here. The immorality of American intervention in Vietnam would have the result of creating a similarly immoral position of complete isolationism. Selective commitments, presumably based on moral as well as strategic criteria, are out, Ravenal tells us. The either/or possibilities suggested by Ravenal remind one of those who opposed the Vietnam War because it seemed the United States couldn't win. Those who stood against the war on moral and not tactical grounds would do well to consider for themselves the moral consequences of this Neo-Isolationism. Ravenal foresees a world...
After that, however, standard criteria give way to a more subjective evaluation. Because the usefulness of test scores is limited, students must eventually be judged in the context of their own respective cultures. While a comparable problem exists in U.S. admissions processes, sorting out educational systems on an international scale is infinitely more complex. Malin devotes an entire office bookshelf and much reading time to pamphlets explaining the varying educational philosophies of different nations...
...candidates, Jackson is second only to George Wallace in his opposition to involuntary busing. A bill he has recently introduced in the Senate calls for the establishment of three-judge courts to decide all busing cases. Before they order busing, the judges would have to consider a variety of criteria, e.g., whether busing would lead to a further flight of whites, as it often has, thus reinforcing segregation. The bill would also authorize $1 billion over the next two years for alternative methods of ending school segregation. Says Jackson: "I am making it clear that I am against busing...