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National organizations are now pressing ahead on two different, connected fronts. One set of groups, that sees its roles as primarily educational, is concentrating on bringing the issue into the public debate. These organizations seem confident that once people understand South Africa, they will favour divestiture. The approach also reflect as reluctance on the part of some groups to take an active stand on the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Making of a Movement | 9/15/1983 | See Source »

...MOST IMPORTANT REASON for voting in favour is the constitution's crucial funding clause. Because the council would annually distribute more than 80 percent of collected funds to campus groups, this provision will allow fledgling but well-intentioned groups to make their causes and interests known to the community. Supporting diverse and financially strapped smaller student organizations could help resurrect interests known to the community. Supporting diverse and financially strapped smaller student organizations could help resurrect student interest and unity on the border campus wide issues the Undergraduate Council itself should address. We would expect the council to focus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote Yes This Week | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...folks at the real-life Valley Forge Military Academy--where Taps was filmed--were not at all pleased by the final product. There was probably more to that sour reaction than simply confusion over an implausible plot. For all of its flaws, Taps is a good argument in favour of run-of-the-mill places called Central High...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Kommando Kids | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

Marilee Dean Baker, president-elect of the AIAW and director of athletics at Princeton, told The Crimson yesterday that if Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., rules in favour of the NCAA, AIAW officials will be forced to dissolve their organization because of its inability to compete financially with the NCAA...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: Courts to Rule on AIAW-NCAA Controversy | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

Relman: I started out saying in principle I'm in favour of prepaid health care, but it certainly should be explored...One of the great things about this country is that we're big enough and rich enough so that we can be very pluralistic and we don't have to commit ourselves to one solution for anything. I think we ought to try a number of different approches...And if you personally don't like one way of health care, you have a number of options and the same for doctors...We may fall flat on our face...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: What's Wrong With Health Care? | 4/29/1981 | See Source »

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