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Lewis and Skocpol claim that the "modest changes being made now should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program," which implies that Professor Coles, Master Kiely, Councillor Duehay, the Mayor of Cambridge Kenneth Reeves '72 and 1,500 to 2,000 undergraduates, were all simply deluded in the outrage they expressed at last Thursday's rally. When an objective viewer begins to consider the experience, knowledge and personal investment of those who are most upset, delusions seem unlikely. Given Lewis and Skocpol's relative inexperience regarding Harvard public service, their evaluation is much harder to believe...
...doubt he's being coy with this modest proposal. But coy or not, he's missing the basic point that the stock market is a far more important national resource than the bond market, particularly the government bond market. After all, what is the government bond market except a creation of Uncle Sam's inability to pay his bills? When you "invest" in government bonds, you are merely the enabler that allows the deadbeat Uncle to continue to live in arrears, the same as if you lent the money to a neighborhood credit-card abuser...
...attempt to answer "misleading statements" and "in the spirit of reconciliation and for the sake of clarification," the letter outlined Harvard's commitments. Among them were continued support for the autonomy of public service organizations such as the House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program. The "modest changes being made now should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program," the letter stated...
...University's revenues grew by 6.5 percent, but expenses only increased 5.7 percent last year. Harvard also reduced its operating deficit from $13.3 million in 1993-94 to a more modest $3.3 million in the past year...
Lewis was out of town yesterday and did not see the students protest, but Lewis and Theda Skocpol, chair of the FAS committee on public service, sent a guest commentary to The Crimson yesterday in which they called the restructuring of public service and the hiring of Kidd "modest changes" which "should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program." (See commentary, page...