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...call it a policy of cooperation with caution," she said. "Not to cooperate is not to have much to offer, and I think Radcliffe has a great deal to offer. I think it is alive and well and extremely important to the life of the University. It is a locus, Radcliffe's operation, including joint fund raising...
...suggestion is that in addition to whatever rights might come from the capacity that the fetus has for suffering, it also represents a value. It represents the locus of human striving (the human strivings of others than the fetus) and the instrumentalities of human strivings. The fetus does represent a potential focus of human affections and relationships, of human capacities and the like. These values are, however, the values of presently fully rational beings...
...create or extinguish rights if they existed by virtue of another argument. If the fetus has rights, the fact that they can be violated without our "noticing it" by abortion, does not extinguish those rights.) Third, in a situation where many persons crave children, to dispose of this intense locus of value without consideration of this is itself an evil...
This tranquil atmosphere of confidence extends far beyond the capital Only a few troop carriers are seen today on the streets of Carmona, the center of the thriving North Angolan coffee industry and a prime locus of guerrilla activity since 1961 when the rebellion broke out only a few miles away...
There are both long and short retorts to this conception of the university. A short answer is that only the belligerently naive can still conceive of the university as a locus of disinterested truth. As Clark Kerr (cited in Stephan Leibfried's excellent book, Die angepasste Universitat...