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...Michael Walzer?--Princeton, north of hell. To Robert S. Brustein we pass the champagne New Haven's loss has been our dramatic gain. For Al Carnesale, alas! appointment came too late And nuclear power will march on to its fate. The year's been, well, preliminary for Robert Klitgaard--If he could get things finished, maybe next won't be as hard. Across the world, leaders lift their glasses and then drain--Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, toast Saddam Hussein. Let Giscard D'Estaing drink with Yassir Arafat Deng Hsiao-ping, have one on Anwar Sadat. Solidarity will flow through the streets...
...What I call the Klitgaard strategy is the quickest way to make a name for oneself by coming out against those who can't hit back," Counter said...
Davis and the other speakers also said that the University response to the threats must be set against the University's failure to divest of its South African stocks, the unnecesarily lengthy Committee reviewing process examining the need for a Third World Center and the recent Klitgaard report, all of which are viewed as insults to the Third World community. With these issues in mind, Third World students labeled the University's recently avowed commitment to a new agressive recruiting policy of minorities for junior faculty posts as merely a public relations effort...
While the divestiture issue and what many student leaders have charged as the University's insensitivity to their needs for a Third World Center can be viewed as the epitome of Harvard's bureaucratic and institutional lack of concern, the recent threats and the Klitgaard report cut far deeper. The report calls into question the correlation of minority students' high test scores with actual academic performance and questions Harvard's affirmative action policy, and appears to have dealt a severe psychological blow to minority students on campus...
...students must also be shared by white students. Just as it seems a tired battle-cry to call on the university to sell South Africa-related investments, it might sound redundant to some to call on white students to understand Black students' concerns. Yet in the aftermath of the Klitgaard report and the recent threats, never has a climate of understanding been more necessary. Perhaps White students who feel that minority students are overreacting, might take a cue from the efforts in the past few weeks of Jane Bock and Lydia Jackson who have worked under the most intense...