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...relaxation of controls in China has brought to the fore a number of problems which Marxism had buried," moderator Patrick D. Hanan '68 said...
Each swing brings to the fore a series of questions. What is the role of the state in enforcing the morality of its citizenry? How far should government go in regulating private conduct? Is morality a question of individual rights? Or should the state play an active role in nurturing values deemed worthy by the community...
...debate over the homeless came to the fore as a jury deliberated in a murder trial last week. David Kurtzman, 18, a brawny cadet at Northwestern Preparatory School in Santa Barbara, was accused (along with a pal, who will be tried later) of the knife murder of a homeless man whom they found sleeping in a park one night last August. The schoolmates are charged with stabbing Michael Stephenson, an unemployed house painter, 17 times, then slashing his throat. It was the second murder of a homeless person in Santa Barbara in nine months. Kurtzman admitted the killing, but defended...
...charter--was definitely out. Memberships slumped, while dozens of fraternity and sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were thought of just as clones of each other." Says Jack Levin, a sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston: "It was an embarrassment to be a member of a fraternity...
...William F. Fore, communication secretary at the National Council of Churches, asserts that the televangelists "have been willing to buy enormous popularity, power and income at the expense of their own integrity." Measuring Christian teaching by the popular acclaim it wins, writes Australian Protestant Minister Peter Horsfield in Religious Television: The American Experience (1984), "has been rejected from the earliest beginnings of the Christian faith." Other critics say that TV subordinates the reflective aspects of Christianity to emotive material that affords instant gratification and entertainment. Political differences underlie some of the sniping, of course. Liberals are upset because their criticisms...