Word: existing
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...join the 142,000-man Regional Forces, which are roughly similar in structure to the U.S. National Guard. About 30,000 are destined for duty in the 285,000-man regular army, most of them as replacements for 20,000 "phantom troops" that Saigon discovered did not in fact exist, after the U.S. installed a data-processing system for the ARVN and gave each infantryman a serial number...
Needless to say, people like that are missing the point. Concerts, especially those of such uncompromising selectivity of programming and meticulousness of performance as Harvard's summer series, exist not for the final approval or disapproval of nit-picking musical Eumenides but for the expanded artistic experience and possibly edification...
Academic institutions exist for the transmission of knowledge, the pursuit of truth, the development of students, and the general well-being of society. Free inquiry and free expression are indispensable to the attainment of these goals. As members of the academic community, students should be encouraged to develop the capacity for critical judgment and to engage in a sustained and independent search for truth. Institutional procedures for achieving these purposes may vary from campus to campus, but the minimal standards of academic freedom of students outlined below are essential to any community of scholars...
...Colleges and universities should discontinue the maintenance of membership lists of student organizations, especial those related to matters of political belief or action. If rosters of this kind do not exist, they cannot be subpoenaed, and the institution is therefore freed of some major elements of conflict and from the risks of contempt proceedings or a suit. The communicate with a campus group, the institution needs only to know its officers, not its entire membership. Whatever may be the advantages of more comprehensive listings, they must be considered, in the determination of policy, against the disadvantages and dangers outlined here...
...investigatory bodies, including Congressional committees, for the membership lists of student organizations. Rather than advising colleges to challenge such agencies as the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Council recommends that universities no longer even keep membership lists of student organizations. "If rosters of this kind do not exist," the Council reasoned, "they cannot be subpoenaed...