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...NOTEBOOK: From the "More Gory Details Department"-the Crimson has a shot at breaking the record for fewest wins in an over-15 game season. The 1937-38 squad went 7-7-1 for the current mark...
...major organizational fault of the current system is that it virtually assures conflict between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is a kind of guardian of federal funds, and the Public Broadcasting Service, which represents the individual stations. There is wholesale duplication of effort, and far too big a percentage of the TV budget is spent on administration rather than on programming. The CPB, whose members are appointed by the President, is overly sensitive to prevailing political winds, moreover. There is always a danger that a determined President will try to influence public television for his own purposes, as Richard...
Such a list could go on almost forever. This fact indeed suggests one possible explanation for the fatigue, or sloganosis, that diminishes the sparkle of the current slogan out put. Could it be that we are witnessing a weird new form of inflation? Is it conceivable that just as an oversupply of mon ey drives down the value of currency, an excess of sloganizing diminishes the catchiness of catchwords and the public's vulnerability to their magic? Who could dare say for sure? Yet the theory offers at least one hope of an eventual recovery...
There are those, of course, who would like to see slogan eering die off entirely. Precisely because the art appeals to emotion, some idealists and intellectual purists disdain it in favor of cool, rational discourse. This crowd is clearly trying to swim against a very strong human current. Moreover, they are out of touch with the problems of both leadership and the human dilemma. The problem has never been to get people to think about doing something. The difficulty has always been to get them to act. From time immemorial, leaders have found that one of the best ways...
Another compromise to the pending bill proposed by representatives on the student congress is a "grandfather" clause, which would allow current 18-year-olds to keep their drinking privileges. Any new legislation would then affect only those under...