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...appreciate what they are enjoying, nor do his cynics know what they are missing. "Oh, what can you do with a man like that?" asks the narrator of one of his stories. "How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond to the inestimable greatness of the race, the harsh surface beauty of life...
...April 15, 1982 Crimson editorial piece entitled "An Infirm Foundation" raised some good points pertaining to the formation of the Foundation and its objective. However, Ms. Wall (the author) fell considerably short of accurately describing the function of the Foundation. She fails to address the many difficulties confronting any individual undertaking a project of the size, magnitude, and complexity as that of a Race Relations Foundation. Moreover, Ms. Wall made no mention of the many research projects, (e.g. discrimination in the athletic department, race relations in various undergraduate houses, and an investigation of the educational status of minorities of color...
...take issue with the letter in the Crimson (4-30 82) highlighting the "positive contributions" that the Race Relations Foundation has made on campus. The laboratory positions that Dr. Counter helped "secure" for many students existed long before he became director of what is indeed. "An Infirm Foundation." He has only been effective in putting certain minority students in tough when certain programs that already existed...
Also, I disagree with the statement in an April 15 editorial. "An Infirm Foundation," by Wendy L. Wallj that "most non-minority students have ignored the Foundation." As a member of the Percy I. Julian Science Organization who worked on publicity for the lecture given by Dr. Masse, I found that many non minority students who have helped expressed interest in finding out more about the Race Relations Foundation...
Adult day care centers are, for a growing number of Americans, a happy solution to the problems posed by infirmity and old age. For people like Crandall, who are disabled but not in need of full-time nursing care, they fill the vital gap between neighborhood senior citizen centers, which are generally not equipped for the handicapped, and dreaded institutionalization. For families of the infirm elderly they offer welcome relief from the strain of providing full-time care for an ailing relative at home and from the guilt that often comes from banishing that person to a nursing home, perhaps...