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...splendidly enigmatic sci-fi parable invade our subconscious, making a great, strange racket. It is a tribute to Bowie's eldritch skill and Roeg's eerie artistry that we feel immediately all the main character's displacement, fear and wonder in his new world. This laser disc (Voyager/The Criterion Collection) marks the first uncut presentation of the original wide-screen format for U.S. home video. Also on the disc: interviews with Roeg, Bowie and co-star Buck Henry. They offer no solutions to the film's mysteries, which is just as well. Figuring out The Man would be like unraveling...
...legitimacy as students. But they are shortsighted to blame Mansfield. His comments resonate only because the flawed system of affirmative action allows them to resonate. The real blame belongs to the "benevolent white admissions officer" and the University officials who enforce the policy of special treatment based on the criterion of race. For by implementing such a practice, these well-meaning administrators create the atmosphere for the opportunity--and the likelihood--of questions of legitimacy based on race, such as Mansfield...
...unfortunate consequences of affirmative action hold true whether the criterion is race, athletic ability or legacy status. Special treatment always has and always will breed the perception of illegitimacy and self-doubt. That doesn't mean that all recipients of special treatment are unqualified, or deserve to be questioned. But damaging impressions necessarily persist. One African-American student at the Business School recently expressed his disgust with preferential treatment in a letter to The Crimson: "if the policy is different for Blacks than for whites, then whites have an excuse to cry foul and Blacks, like myself, remain chained...
...staff completely misses the point at issue in its editorial. The question here is not one of free speech. For if Mansfield has the freedom to makes the comment he did, then surely Ali has the freedom to ask him to apologize. The staff applies its free speech criterion to Mansfield but not to Ali, and to the minority coalition...
Jewett presents a new compromise date rape definition, the result of collaboration among Viggiani, her successor Viggiani L. Mackay-Smith '78 and Heinicke, which is "sexual intercourse against the will of the victim." The new definition favors the council's definition and reflects Jewett's desire for a negative criterion for the definition.CrimsonNancy E. Greene...