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There is a definite role that the Student-Faculty Advisory Council can and should play at Harvard. A representative body of students and faculty members adds an important facet to the organizational structure of the community. It is unfortunate the Council had to spend such a large chunk of its first year formulating a policy on what was really a dead issue. SFAC should proceed to other important matters...
...significant facet of the phenomenon is that more students are moving away from alienation and toward highly political activism. While the hippie movement is waning, student power has shifted from passive protest to specific action aimed at accomplishing practical goals. Some youngsters who had despaired of the whole political system, and doubted that they could ever accomplish real change by working inside it, were given a new sense of hope and power by the crusade for Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire. Following a romantic cause to a remote state, a few thousand students used old-fashioned ward politics to help...
This past winter, at their monastery near St. Louis, the Roman Catholic Redemptorist Fathers put into operation an electronic data-processing service de signed to provide "a 71-facet view of each practicing Catholic." Pastors who want to make use of the service must distribute a questionnaire to their faithful, then wait for the Redemptorists to feed the answers into an IBM System 360 computer. The 180-page printout that the machine delivers gives the pastor a cybernetic summary of his parishioners' religious attitudes...
...ancient Greece, the Olympic Games were a sacred rite, quite distinct from any other facet of the classical existence. They were the supreme test of the individual, and in his triumphs a source of great pride to the chauvinistic city-states. During wartime the Greeks would halt hostilities to observe the Olympiad--a tribute to the gods. In a very important way, the Games and athletics in general stood above the political sphere...
...also points out that this is in part due to inexperience. The whole idea of developing human--as opposed to just natural--resources is very new, both in the U.S. and abroad. Just one facet of this new approach to underdevelopment, educational development on a mass scale, is still in its infancy and will remain immature for some time to come...