Word: iops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Art A. Hall '93 said that the representatives from the Institute of Politics (IOP) had asked his organization to sponsor a possible speech by Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who last month lost in his bid for the Louisiana governorship...
THIS CONTROVERSY could waste a lot of time. IOP pols have to polish their quotes for The Crimson, ace reporters Ira E. Stoll '94 and Joanna M. Weiss '94 have to do a four-part series on said IOP pols, President Rudenstine has to write a thoughtful yet sensitive open letter to the community, the Dems and Republicans have to play less-Nazi-than-thou, someone around here has to write a wryly-disapproving-but-above-it-all staff editorial, countless well-meaning souls have to flood The Crimson with countless well-meaning letters to the editors, the Black Students...
COMMUNISM, if anyone other than 1.1 billion Chinese remembers what that is, used to work something like this: You pretend to work, and we pretend to pay you. Let's do the same for this embryonic snit: The IOP pretends to bring Duke, and we pretend to freak out. It's efficient, satisfying and over in a flash...
Second, maybe in the course of The Affair, someone will do something profoundly goofy and therefore entertaining. So far, at least one thing has happened that boggles the mind: IOP Chair Kimberley D. Harris '92 transcended chutzpah by asking the BSA and Hillel to co-sponsor the speech...
...IOP, which wants to invite David Duke...