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...inevitably raises the issue of the place of the Reserve Officer Training Corps, and of the military more generally, on Harvard's campus. But let us not get so caught up in this relatively parochial matter that we ignore the larger questions the very existence of ROTC in its current state should evoke. For a remilitarized country and a war-torn world exist in spite of a demilitarized Harvard...
...this bill becomes law, the very concept of equality of opportunity will no longer exist in practice. Although Senator Nunn claims that the bill will "promote upward mobility," it is hard to see how it will serve to do anything but freeze people's current positions in the social structure...
THESE fundamental problems of unfairness and division are inherent in any service-for-financial-aid trade-off; they would exist regardless of whether the requirement is for civilian or military service. What makes the Nunn bill even worse is that--in the manner of the current ROTC but on a much grander scale--it would force people into the military. Raymond Davis of the D.C. Student Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism concludes that, because the proposed military voucher is so much greater than the voucher for civilian service, young people "would be likely to take one of the military options...
...visitors said Soviet psychiatrists still appeared to use drugs of dubious medical value. Many Western experts will no doubt oppose readmitting the Soviet Union to the W.P.A. until Moscow shakes up the psychiatric leadership and unequivocally renounces past practices. Though grounds for skepticism remain, there are signs that the current Soviet reform wave will lead to more humane and enlightened forms of psychiatric care...
...current table tennis team is trying to reestablish itself as the best team in the East...