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Last week Professor Kala Krishna proved that capitalists subsidize athletes just as much as steroid wielding communists do by destroying the schedules of 160 students to accommodate the dedication of 40 sports enthusiasts. Originally scheduled from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., Ec 1011a, a required honors course, now meets at 8:30 a.m. to avoid conflict with the athletes' practice time. A 20 percent minority was given preference over the 80 percent of the class that lacks athletic stature...
...Anyone who wants to do sports and economics should not be penalized," said Krishna. True, but neither should Harvard cater to the athlete's every whim. That classes will occassionally run into practice time should be a given at an institution that intends to be a university, not a training camp. The fault lies not with the athletes, but with a department that fawns over them...
...Krishna claims that the schedule change served the best interests of a larger portion of students. What she bases this assertion on is not clear--certainly not on the actual response of her students. Morning conflicts were not considered in this decision. For instance how many in the class work Dorm Crew? Students who have to work should hardly be penalized...
...have circulated since 1979, when California Temple Leader Alexander Kulik was convicted of distributing heroin. He was also accused, with others, of laundering drug money through an investment company, Prasadam Distributors, controlled by sect members. The new questions could hardly have come at a worse time for the Hare Krishna movement in the U.S. (membership: about 3,000). Since the death in 1977 of Founder Srila Prabhupada, the sect has split into mutually hostile factions. The internal trouble was dramatized publicly last fall when a disillusioned devotee bludgeoned the leader of the West Virginia temple, Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada. The assailant...
Bhaktipada, 48, who was left partly deaf and slightly lame by the bludgeoning, dismisses the West Virginia investigations as "absurd." He claims that Bryant began attacking the sect because he thought it had caused his wife to leave him. "He was vindictive," says Bhaktipada. Is there dissension within the Krishna temples? The guru concedes, "We have differences of opinion...