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...these days, of the entire National Theater-is Designer John Gunter. His garden and woodland sets provide the perfect trysting place for sobriety and anarchy, and the majestic train engine he sends chugging toward the audience at play's end is more effective than any of the loco motion in Starlight Express...
...these politicians in the academy call them, exhibit ambivalence over the power of the president "Students do not want the president to enforce the local drinking age," claimed Riesman, who established his academic career decrying trends among our generation in The Lonely Crowd, "but are happy to invoke in loco parentis surreptitiously when they get in trouble." The faculty of a college, Riesman argues, feels ambivalent about the president's power, expecting some sort of errand boy to free them from lowly administrative chores, but skeptical of any real power...
...rejects any negotiations with the guerrillas "because the Communists will not accept any agreement other than surrender." His idea of Communism is pervasive: it includes the liberals, the Social Democrats and, above all, El Salvador's Christian Democrats and their leader, José Napoleón Duarte. "That loco Duarte and his party are the political arm of subversion. Christian Democrats and the guerrillas represent two different tactics of Communism. The first one to get into power will call the other, and together they will give the country to the U.S.S.R." When I tell him that...
PERHAPS THAT'S being a bit harsh. Perhaps these fines are a well-intentioned effort to maintain some control over student's personal lives after the in loco parentis advising structure of freshman year drops away. Perhaps, yes perhaps, it is a brilliant psychological ploy that fails only because it does not go far enough...
...some cases, officials argue that in loco parentis responsibility for students in their care implies an equal responsibility to safeguard children by, say, keeping drugs off campus. But schools cannot be required to discharge this responsibility by overriding constitutional rights. Others argue that schools simply exercise parental discretion by searching students in their cause...