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...great majority of its time on small, daily services to the undergraduates. Investigations and reports on instruction, housing, advising, and scholarships continue to take a back seat to football movies, ticket exchanges, activities bulletins, and charity collections. Just how the Council can fulfill its secondary, social service function, without detriment to its primary, advisory function, and how it should be organized to do this, will be discussed in tomorrow's editorial...
...understanding exists today. Instead, responsible officials and responsible reporters . . . are now playing cops & robbers ... in Foggy Bottom*. . . The object of the cops seems to be to conceal information. The object of the robbers [should be] to disclose information . . . Both sides [wage] their own private little cold war [to] the detriment of the public...
...commission does not regard this prospect as calamitous. To the neo-Malthusians, who assert that the world population is outrunning its food supply, the commission report makes this answer: "The danger that a shortage of foodstuffs entering the world markets may continue indefinitely to the serious detriment of countries whose populations have outstripped their own agricultural resources cannot, we think, be rated higher than a possibility...
...second phase of "the German problem" is economic. Trade between East and West in Europe is meager, clearly to the detriment of both sides. Now that the Foreign Ministers are going to discuss Germany, they will doubtless talk about trade as well. If arrangements can be made to foster the exchange of eastern German raw materials and foodstuffs for industrial products of the western zones, it would be a wholesome beginning to a general relaxing of the unofficial dual blockade of the Continent, and that in itself would ease the "cold war" tensions in jittery Europe...
...defended administrative approval of proctored exams on the grounds that taking too much advantage of the honor system's freedom of time is to the detriment of the student...