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...What is said at the March 8 and April 15 Faculty meetings really doesn't matter, all the full Faculty can do is vote to continue or to discontinue the Core program for five years. The Academics Committee concluded, and The Crimson would probably agree, that it would be foolish and misrepresentative of student opinion to recommend that the program be scrapped entirely So the Faculty debates are just a formality. Real reform will come in the Core sub-committees, and, most important, in the Core Standing Committee. Academics committee representatives to all of the Core Committees are already lobbying...
Mosher now admits that he was foolish to have published the article. Many leading U.S. anthropologists believe that it violated the profession's code of ethics by failing to disguise the women pictured and to protect their privacy. In addition, officials who allowed Mosher to take the photographs were exposed to possible punishment by higher authorities. Says Prewitt: "What Mosher discovered is an important contribution to anthropology. How he reported it is a tragedy for the field...
There is no need to eliminate the many fine courses already established which approach these disciplines more imaginatively; some students may well prefer them. But it would be foolish to maintain that students learn less about artistic inquiry by tracing the course of art in the Western world than by examining "The Development of the String Quartet." And it would be shameful to continue forcing students to eschew a broader grounding if they choose to seek...
After reading of the KGB's brutal methods for repressing other countries, I realize how foolish and naive those liberals are who believe the Soviet Union wants peace. The U.S. is hardly responsible for the arms race or the instability in the world...
...biggest threat to American business is not Japan. It is pennywise, pound-foolish executives like William Agee who squander money on wasteful corporate mergers. For him to be skewered by his own ambition is poetic justice...