Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...profess to "focus on the individual colleges" more than Harvard does on its Houses--whose dorms have avoided the deleterious stereotypes that have afflicted Harvard. And it is Princeton--known for its stodgy, old-world outlook towards education--that is acting to break up homogeneous dorms and to encourage inter-racial, inter group mingling...
Harvard, in Epps' opinion, seeks "a kind of intellectual community,"--the "community of culture" once envisioned by President A. Lawrence Lowell, who installed the House system--by allowing Houses to develop reputations based on residents' interests. But in encouraging separatism, the College discourages the inter group contact that is the raison d'etre of intellectual diversity. Administrators maintain the preferential lottery largely in the name of the traditions that have grown up around individual Houses. In doing so, though, they subvert a broader tradition: what Epps calls President Lowell's "notion that people from different social classes were...
...Harvard's Ivy rivals have taken successfully. Harvard is right to tread slowly when it may be encroaching on student privileges. But it also has a responsibility to act when larger rights and values--like that of a truly integrated University community, in which the individual's opportunity for inter group mingling is great--are at stake. Circumscribing those chances in the name of individual liberty seems a peculiar paradox indeed. But sadly it may be the inevitable result of an administration so overly concerned with short-term student quiescence that it overlooks the more lasting benefit--to the individual...
...want to side with the U.S. Says Bruce Kent, the C.N.D. head: "We will come in with the Americans when they will treat Turkey, Haiti and El Salvador the way they are treating Poland." By far the strongest condemnation of the events in Poland was issued by the Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council, which had been one of the most effective peace groups that organized protests against the deployment of U.S. missiles. The council conceded that the situation in Poland had been an enormous setback for the pacifist movement. Said Council Leader Mient-Jan Faber: "We were bewildered and outraged...
...people. On the Hill, congressional committees sabotage hearings sponsored by other panels in a tragicomic battle for jurisdictional preeminence. Over in the executive branch, Smithers at State witholds information from Cunningham at Commerce because when Cunningham used to work at State they had clashed over who should attend an inter-agency conference sponsored by Treasury. Everyone writes memos and formulates operative alternatives, but most of the time elected officials hear only what they want to hear, while the bright young innovators shape up or ship out. Fromson's career peaked when he discovered a major flaw in some important Social...