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Much of the opposition to ROTC stems from feelings that association with the Pentagon puts a moral stain on the University. This view, based largely on the original impetus for ROTC's expulsion--its association with the United States' morally bankrupt adventure in Vietnam--presupposes that there is something ineradicable corrupt and oppressive about the American military. It overlooks the potentially salutary influence that liberal arts students may exert on the armed forces. Broadening America's officer corps to include graduates of schools like Harvard will make the military more representative of society as a whole, and will have...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: ROTC at Harvard: Three Views | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Despite the relatively favorable settlement for Harvard, students can expect the rise of nearly $2 million a year in fuel costs to translate into higher room charges. University officials have repeatedly cited the Cambridge Steam negotiations as a major impetus behind this year's tuition increases...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Harvard Agrees to New Heat Contract | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

...billion more than expected. The latest findings are a sequel to a 1980 Spinney report, Defense Facts of Life, which argued that the pursuit of complex technology has resulted in the production of weapons that are high in cost, few in number and questionable in effectiveness. That analysis gave impetus to the incipient military-reform movement, but had little impact within the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Winds of Reform | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

There are two ways to look at a Boston-based, hardcore group like the F.U.s. On the one hand, hardcore in Boston was derivative in the first place, having gotten much of its impetus from the Los Angeles hardcore movement. Hardcore in Boston seems at times to have stalled out musically, to be riding on a two-year-old momentum which was created by shock value rather than artistry...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Hardcore Curriculum | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

...sense, he belonged to everyone for those three weeks, and that universal parenthood may be worth remembering. Baby Doe was the product of a beneficent social impulse. Malahoff wished him into existence, and Stiver provided the incubator, but the context and impetus for the birth were in the public realm, the generally, if warily accepted idea that if infertile people want children strongly enough, then modern science ought to offer a way. Thus arose the recent and remarkable inventions of surrogate parents and test-tube babies. No one is wholly comfortable with these mechanisms, including the principals, but when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Baby in the Factory | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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