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Dean Epps should make explicit his intentions regarding the committee. The committee has great potential, but it can be effective only if all the interested student groups understand its structure and endorse its goals before it begins to meet. Hopefully, both Epps and the minority organizations be patient and accomodate each other's positions so that the Committee on Race Relations can be launched from solid ground...
...critic Harold Rosenberg once proposed an intellectual version of the "what a drag it is getting old" cry of the Rolling Stones. "Psychoanalysis Americanized" made explicit a point implied in Rosen's later book, declaring in 1965 that...
...contemplating, let alone applying and competing to enter these institutions. Thus the mandate that affirmative action imposes on universitites is to refrain from any admissions processes that might continue to discourage minorities. This means more than showing no signs of discrimination; admissions committees are obliged to take positive and explicit action, as did the U.C. Davis admissions program, to ensure that even disadvantaged minorities will know that, if qualified, the equal opportunity to benefit from higher education is open to them...
...churches realize that explicit sexual material has been creeping into network programs for several years. But Soap is regarded as a key test case. The Rev. Everett Parker, media watchdog of the liberal United Church of Christ, calls the program "a deliberate effort to break down any resistance to whatever the industry wants to put into prime time." Says Wall Street Media Analyst Anthony Hoffman: "Soap is a stalking horse. If it is a success, everyone will want...
...year plot projection, or "bible," has been leaked. Religious groups have quickly created a dispute about material that has not yet even survived the ABC censors. Says Everett C. Parker, TV watchdog for the United Church of Christ: "It's going to be the opening wedge for sexually explicit material in prime time." Adds Al Antczak of the Roman Catholic newspaper Tidings: ''The desecration of morality, and of the Catholic religion in particular, is an outrage that calls for protest in the strongest terms...