Word: deal
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...viability of the present system of education than the HUC is with the faculty, the administration, or the COH about the viability of the present system of socialization. There are three more specific reasons for the supposed failure of the HUC compared to the HPC. (1) The HUC deals with potentially sensational issues--generational rather than educational--which could drag Harvard's name into the public mud. (2) The HUC is inherently a non-academic group and, therefore, creates a much less favorable set of expectations with the decision-makers. (3) The HUC must deal with the outlandishly unreceptive...
...conventional wisdom says that power over undergraduates' social affairs is vested in the COH. This is about 90 per cent patent untruth, though it is probably to the advantage of the administration to allow such a false impression to continue. Discontented students will waste all their time trying to deal with the antiquated Committee. In fact, the COH has a great deal of power only by comparison to the absolute impotency of student groups, like...
...coalition is needed to deal with issues more subtle than an end to the Vietnam war and domestic poverty. Solutions to the war and poverty are elusive, but similar problems have been resolved before. Vietnam requires the decision to get out; economic integration of blacks requires enough "money, spent with good sense...
...Deal liberalism directs itself to the wrong problems, so do plans for revolution. "It's not capitalism that's at fault," says Goodwin, "but systematization. It's not the robber baron who's the problem today but the Harvard Business School, organizing for safety....The question of revolution becomes irrelevant. You haven't got the troops. Politics is the only course with any chance of success...
Second, we must transfer more initiative for reform to local and community groups. Aggrieved individuals can more easily approach a local agency governing education, poverty, or law enforcement. More important, an agency with first-hand knowledge of a city can deal more efficiently and wisely with its problems than can lockstep reform from Washington. New Haven's enlightened urban renewal, for example, has been slowed down by the legislative morass of Federal aid programs. Goodwin wants to establish minimum Federal standards to prevent abuse, but then, give money to the cities and let them work...