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...PREMISE of The Crimson majority position rests on the assumption that President Bok should speak out on issues of national importance. Further, it supposes that Bok has neglected this responsibilty, in comparison with A. Barlett Giamatti's sweeping condemnation of the Moral Majority...
...Giamatti's speech is to be praised, and Bok should indeed address weighty and often perplexing matters as president of this institution. But Bok has fulfilled that responsibility, through forums such as open letters, annual reports and Commencement speeches...
...right-wing social activism of Jesse Helms and his supporters may play in Peoria, but last week it bombed in New Haven. In a letter to 1,267 incoming freshmen, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, 43, denounced a "self-proclaimed Moral Majority" and the New Right generally as "peddlers of coercion" and enemies of the spirit of free inquiry. Wrote Giamatti: "Angry at change, rigid in the application of chauvinistic slogans, absolutistic in morality, they threaten through political pressure or public denunciation whoever dares to disagree." Something of a conservative himself - he favors rigorous, traditional instruction and has often...
...Giamatti, who was prevented from delivering his remarks in person when he was hospitalized for removal of a kidney stone, also lamented a rise in "antiSemitic episodes" and the growing visibility of the Ku Klux Klan. The New Right, he said, has "licensed a new meanness of spirit in our land, a resurgent bigotry that manifests itself in racist and discriminatory postures; in threats of political retaliation; in injunctions to censorship; in acts of violence." He added: "What disgusts me so much about the 'morality' seeping out of the ground around our feet is that it would deny...
After conferring with school officials at Harvard. Princeton and Yale, and with the 12 students. Litvack "has been asked to make...the final judgment on the athletic eligibility of these twelve students," Giamatti's statement said...