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...form of amendments to various pieces of legislation which on their face would seem to have been sufficient to put an end to busing. And yet, after every such seemingly successful effort, the Congress has been surprised by a twisted judicial interpretation of its language or studied disregard of it by government bureaucrats. Thus, in addition to continued consideration of legislative solutions to this matter, I am convinced that we must also move toward a constitutional amendment...
Walter J. Leonard, assistant to President Bok and chairman of the advisory committee, said last week that the Institute's first director may implement recommendations of groups such as the United Committee for Third World Organizations. But more importantly, the director may disregard any Afro Department requests. Since the Afro Department has a history of minimal faculty support, failure to make explicit the Institute's formal relationship to the Afro Department would frustrate the Afro Department's attempts to sanction programs through the Institute. If formal connections with Institute and the Afro Department were reinstated in the plan, the Afro...
...always admired eccentrics. Eminent disregard for the conventional exposes our ridiculousness and negates this world's power to produce migraines, ulcers and hysteria. Contact with a true eccentric is essential to maintaining one's sanity. The few eccentrics I've known have rescued me from the brink of self-destruction. Eccentrics hang drying pumpkin and apple slices from their livingroom ceilings. They know the words to "God Save the Czar." They are experts on the Hapsburgs. They wear Wallabees. And, if they happened to have been extremely rich and Bostonian in the 1890s, they built Venetian palaces...
...fall of 1966, when 800 protesters forced Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to take questions about the Vietnam war on the hood of a car outside Quincy House, a significant minority of Harvard students were ready--some of them anxious--to disregard Ford's warning. The immediate sequence of events that led to the Strike didn't start for another two years; but a radical discontent began to simmer long before that. In the spring of 1967, the teaching fellows--whose successors would provide the Strike with its five demands--began the first attempt to unionize Harvard academics since...
...plan to segregate smokers from non-smokers whenever more than 25 people gather in public. In an editorial last Saturday, The New York Times supported the proposal, saying it would "help liberate non-smokers from the tyranny of those who indiscriminately pollute the air of public places in disregard of the health and comfort of others...