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...threatened to register their displeasure with a nationwide work stoppage similar to the one that shut factories for an hour on Oct. 3. Walesa and others had argued against such a step, at least for the moment. Said Walesa: "We are aware of the economic losses another strike would entail, but, since this is our weapon, we cannot give up using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Chilly Time for D | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...throughout the western world. Oil supplies are not a mere "phantom" of national security. The United States has only a six-week emergency supply of oil, and it would certainly take much longer for alternative energy sources and conservation to eliminate the shortage that blockage of the Strait would entail...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Calm and Rational | 9/30/1980 | See Source »

...fall, the seven-man team will take on tough eastern and NCAA teams; the spring will entail competition in the AAU. Along the way. Harvard plans to meet six of the eight teams that made it to the NCAA finals last year, including perennial powerhouse and second-ranked UCLA, and tough customers Fordham and Air Force. In the east, the first goal will be to defeat two teams that have drowned the club in the past--Yale and MIT--and ultimately to challenge Brown, the strongest in the east...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A New Varsity Takes the Plunge | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Others seemed worried about Huggins' stated view that Afro-Am is not a discipline, but an area of study. "Conventional disciplines ususally entail a method and a technique, and are discrete and distinctive. In these terms, Afro-Am is not a discipline," Huggins says, adding, "It has a perspective but not a method--and it has the flexibility to incorporate different perspectives." He considers the department "an adminsitrative unit" and adds jokingly, "I've known departments in my day that have had no discipline, academic or otherwise...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Huggins Takes the Hot Seat | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

Huggins' philosophy, then, does not entail the study of the liberal arts for just its own sake. "Reading and listening to lectures are not what undergraduate education is all about. A concentration can and should develop ways of thinking about issues and problems. I hope students will see the concentration as a means for doing something, not just learning something," he says...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Huggins Takes the Hot Seat | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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