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...paucity of course offerings in the department this year cannot legitimately be explained away solely by its size. The problem calls for attention from University Hall, not benign neglect. First, the University must smooth the path for joint appointments. There is cause for optimism on this point, as Huggins met this week with Deans A. Michael Spence and Phyllis Keller to work on more effective appointment processes...
...attention to the problems of Aborigines would be an improvement over years of neglect. The unemployment rate among Aborigines is 45%, compared with 8% for white Australians. Alcoholism and malnutrition are so rampant that the expected life span for an Aborigine man is 56, compared with 72 for a white Australian. According to Dr. Michael Gracey, a medical researcher in Perth, high levels of infection, unbalanced diets and poor hygiene are all contributing to impaired growth among Aboriginal children. Trapped in a cycle of poverty, some 200 Aborigines rioted in two Outback towns in Queensland and New South Wales this...
Long the victims of bigotry, some Aborigines have even expressed fears that the government's neglect is a subtle form of genocide. Such suspicions are rooted in history: in the early 1800s, white settlers massacred Aborigines, sometimes shooting them for sport. The Aborigine population, plagued by cholera and influenza, fell from more than 300,000 in the late 18th century to about 170,000 today. At a science conference in Queensland two weeks ago, Historian Gwen Deemal-Hall alleged that the state government was injecting young Aboriginal women with a contraceptive drug to slow the growth of the indigenous population...
...normal, common-sense reaction, certainly, but one with uncertain and morally perplexing consequences. Koch has just announced that on Oct. 1 the city will begin the involuntary institutionalization of the homeless mentally ill who are incapable of caring for themselves. The new "self-neglect" rule, as one city official calls it, will loosen the current requirement that the potential patient be an immediate danger to himself or others. This tough standard is common around the U.S. To be accepted in crowded mental health facilities nowadays, says Jill Halverson, a Los Angeles activist, "a homeless person has to be either killing...
Through wind and rain for up to six hours, hundreds of Muscovites waited last week outside the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum. Two years after his death and following more than half a century of official neglect, Marc Chagall was being honored in his native land with a major retrospective. Neither the artist's dreamy images of village life nor his Jewish themes endeared him to Soviet authorities. After Chagall went into voluntary exile in France in 1922, many of the works he had left behind were banished to museum storerooms...