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...empty statement. Gestures are not to be dismissed as merely symbolic. We live by symbols and the symbolic value of this university's collective gestures is orders of magnitude greater than the value of individual gestures we might make. We can choose, Mr. President, collective silence that implies either collective consent or collective indifference. Or we can take a stand that publicizes our collective opposition to the institutional racism of apartheid. Stephen A. Marglin Professor of Economics
...would like to point out something to you. We have found through a survey that most Third World people and other progressive thinking students do not read your magazine because of the "master mentality" that you perpetrate. Thus your readership consists of people who either do not care about the questions of racism and oppression or actively condone them. Both types of readers are indeed racists. Your articles and pieces, supposedly humoristic, serve to reinforce this narrow-minded racism that appeals to and supports those reactionaries who cry "reverse discrimination." We are tired of being the victims of your sick...
Marius's proposal also fails to deal with the broader problems in the Expository Writing program as a whole. By most accounts, other Expos courses do not train students to write skillful expository prose either, and certainly do not motivate already-competent essay-writers to improve their prose, a merit fiction teachers claim for the fiction options. Marius would do well to concentrate his reforming energies on these far more serious drawbacks to the program, so that Harvard's required Expository Writing course will begin to turn out accomplished, or at the very least, competent, writers, as it is supposed...
...which explains the ho-hum reaction. Devolution is a complicated economic issue as well as a political football in Great Britain. This vote was tangled in legislative complications and party machinations and can not be viewed as a clear mandate one way or the other on the question of either devolution or Scottish independence...
...gamble backfired on Callaghan. Some people backed Callaghan's plan because they want Scottish control in government and see devolution as the way to do it. But many opposed devolution, either because they dislike big government and the prospect of higher taxes or because they actually want more self-governance but think that this particular plan is a paltry concession from Westminster that will be used as an excuse to ignore future requests for more autonomy. They felt the bill was designed more to help Callaghan and his failing party than to help Scotland...