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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting idea has emerged from the debate on divestiture, Mr. President, the idea that excellence in research and teaching depends on the exploitation of black South Africans, that the financial costs of divestiture might impair what you termed in your open letter of March 9 our "special mission" in "the discovery and transmission of knowledge." Now this notion will not surprise those radical critics of capitalism who have long argued the dependence of corporate profits on racism and imperialism. It is more surprising to hear this argument from more respectable sources, indeed from the very establishment itself...
...purpose is not to affirm or deny a link between profits derived from exploitation and the financial well-being of this university. It is rather, Mr. President, to express my surprise that a university dedicated, in your words, to a "continuing critique of our values, our behavior, our institutions, and our social practices" commits so little of its resources to study and instruction on this question. The Economics Department, where one might logically expect to find this continuing critique, is rather more committed to making capitalism work smoothly that to subjecting it to basic critical evaluation. The economics of institutional...
...Mr. President, let me speak frankly. I could accept your argument for political neutrality more easily if our teaching and research really gave the weight to a "continuing critique" of our society that your open letter suggests...
...conclude, Mr. President, with a statement of my own views on the specific question of divestiture. I have heard it said that divestiture is but a gesture, an empty statement. Gestures are not to be dismissed as merely symbolic. We live by symbols and the symbolic value of this university's collective gestures is orders of magnitude greater than the value of individual gestures we might make. We can choose, Mr. President, collective silence that implies either collective consent or collective indifference. Or we can take a stand that publicizes our collective opposition to the institutional racism of apartheid. Stephen...
Flesh Gordon. If you're a little less stewed, maybe you can convince your buddy that Flesh Gordon is really lots better. It isn't, but it's shorter. Parodying the thirties Flash Gordon series, Flesh, an all-American Mr. Clean hero and his two musketeers, pursue the evil sex ray to its source, discovering a sexual munchkin land where Prince Precious and his tandy tribe frolic in spite of the Evil Wang's despotic rule. The special effects--including penises as monsters, trees, spaceships, etc.--all seem like the products of a pervert with a chemistry set in someone...