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THIS PIECE proposes that Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates organize themselves into a union to protect and pursue the real interests they hold in common as students -interests which are clearly distinct from the actual interests of Faculty, Administration, and employees in the present University community...
...disciplinary games, the undergraduates of Radcliffe and Harvard have implicitly denied the myth of community. We should see this rejection in the light of its broadest implication for us: that we have now begun to realize that as students we are a separate group within this University community, with distinct interests, common to all of us, which we share with no other group within the University...
What are some of our common interests, and how are they distinct from others? One general point is that while students are pursuing four-year college educations here, everybody else is pursuing a career. That makes for a considerable difference in perspective. Since we students are the only group who are paying instead of being paid to work here, we are the only people here who have an interest in keeping tuition low. Yet we seem to be powerless to prevent the University from arbitrarily raising tuition. Except for the Corporation, we are the only members of the immediate community...
...evangelists. One current effort in Mexico has some 5,000 Mexican congregations at work evangelizing their own areas. Though outsiders frequently come equipped with better technical skills, only rarely can they do a better job of evangelizing. One recent exception occurred in Ghana, where there are at least 50 distinct languages. Black evangelists from Ghanaian towns could not talk to the rural, up-country Chokosis without noticeable hauteur. But a white United Church of Christ missionary, Alfred Krass, learned Chokosis and converted hundreds...
Penn has had a distinct advantage at one and two throughout the season. counting on the two top collegiate players, Palmer Page and Eliot Berry. But Briggs' victory over McAdoo indicates that all nine matches tomorrow will be toss...