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There are many "white folks" completely removed from the ghetto scene who might infer that the story of Baby Love depicts a typical inner-city black youth. Baby Love represents only an extreme example of what the area is capable of producing. This article does great injustice to the majority of black and Hispanic youngsters who are simply good kids, doing their best to succeed in a world in which the cards are stacked against them. Richard Bobrick Paterson...
...where's the EDITORIAL heading? Don't you think some of the more naive members of our community deserve to be in on the enjoyment, too? Let's face it people-things are getting sloppy around the old dynasty these days. Are you in any position to infer that "conservative students in general" pursue their politics with anything less than "style and grace"? Even my liberal roommate immediately saw through this sad attempt to prejudice Harvard students against The Salient before it's presses even start to roll. I think you are scared of a little competition. Look...
...which is gaining dangerous political clout, especially in the anti-union South. There was the next-to-needless baseball strike, with the slightly revolting sight of vastly overpaid and underworked players demanding more. And now there is the most popular president in recent memory taking to nationwide t.v. to infer that striking air traffic controllers are greedy traitors manipulated by union bosses...
Teaching creationism in schools does not promote religion any more than evolution does. Both require belief. Actually, the origin of man is more than a matter of science vs. religion. If man was created by a determined act, then we can infer that man is worth something to his creator, and not just an evolved housefly, with no purpose and no destiny...
...begin with, we must infer that The Crimson, having published Mr. Cudjoe's piece, is no mere bourgeois "ideological apparatus" seeking "to make the natives fight among themselves," unlike the New York Times and the rest of "The Press." Mr. Cudjoe claims that Gershman and Klitgaard simply perpetrate "another ideological onslaught ... against Black America, the activities of the Ku Klux Klan being the more vulgar manifestation of the same phenomenon." He further accuses them of "pseudo-intellectualism and militant racist assumptions." But where is the Klan-like racism in the Klitgaard report? In pointing out test score discrepancies? If there...