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Many Faculty members disputed Pedersen’s proposal, saying that the question of Core requirements should not be linked with freshman seminars and that the Core is needed to prevent students from getting too narrow in their academic interests...
While there are specific, ethical arguments that can be used against the practice of outsourcing at an extremely rich institution like Harvard, these arguments cannot be extended to labor as a whole. Ignorance of this truth explains why so many campus activists have become the willing dupes of the narrow, antisocial interests of union labor...
...command of Air Force Brigadier General Donald Wurster, head of all special operations in the Pacific, Army special forces, backed by commandos from other services, were setting up quarters last week for a 6- to 12-month stay at a camp on Mindanao, just a boat ride across the narrow strait from Basilan. Philippine counterparts are already taking delivery of U.S. equipment, including a C-130 cargo plane and eight Huey helicopters...
...also a senior lecturer emeritus there). Hetherington is 75, Wallerstein 79; both are in marriages that have lasted 40-plus years. But their methods vary sharply. Hetherington amassed data on thousands of kids; Wallerstein intimately interviewed about 60. One tactic is broad but shallow, the other deep but narrow...
...role as a producer of technically trained graduates, the University has the important task of propagating a culture that promotes a stable and peaceful society. That is why we require students to take courses in literature and moral reasoning. If, by its actions as an employer, the University embodies narrow rationality and a preoccupation with the “bottom line,” it educates students into a worldview that propagates social strife and instability...