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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present crisis in Iran is cloaked in hysteria which obscures the important questions: Why is the Shah here and should he be here? The press dwells on the uncomfortable condition of the hostages, the Shah's failing health, and especially on the "anti-Americanism" of Iranians. When hostages express sympathy for their captors' demands, this is dismissed as a psychological syndrome without consideration of the validity of those demands. Feelings of hatred towards Khomeini and Iranians are whipped up at the expense of reasoned consideration of the issues...
Therefore, we concerned Iranian students attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University as a matter of principle, express our opposition to the aforementioned administrative decree. We will not report to the Immigration and Naturalization Services until the legulity of the order has been established. Class action suits regarding this decree have already been presented to the courts by the ACLU and others...
...finally threatened to walk, only 20 miles; it aroused the maternal instincts of a friend of his. On two hours sleep (Hercules always hated the morning) Hercules tried to frame questions. There was something in bodybuilding that touched the existentialist in Hercules, although he found it hard to express. He suspected that Arnold lived out on the edge (where else would you use all those muscles?), that Arnold too was an existentialist. It was not insignificant to Hercules that America had become a nation of joggers, that America had a jogging president at the time the embassies started to burn...
...feeling was clearly shared by British newspapers excluded from the cozy press conference arranged by the Times for Blunt. Huffed the Daily Express: "Professor Blunt would not have been offered so much as a stale kipper at the Express office, he is such a phony old humbug." Maureen Bingham, who spent 30 months in prison for violating the Official Secrets Act, charged, "It is one law for the rich and one law for the poor...
Along with thousands of students throughout the world, I looked towards Harvard as an example of what a great university is. But an article in The Crimson ("The Missing CUE," Oct. 29) changed my attitude. The article explained how CUE--a committee in which students and faculty express their opinions and ideas--has been unable to meet so far this year because of faculty apathy towards the committee. Faculty are simply not volunteering to serve on CUE, or--this happened last year--they are volunteering, and then not attneding CUE meetings. This apathy is inexcusable, for how can a university...