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Actually, the likelihood is an unpredictable scatter of good and bad results. But Carter is speaking about the intensity of what is about to occur. The rules that have been violated are those that govern the etiquette of complex international relations--the rules of diplomacy. The notion, for example, that the President of the U.S. would challenge our oldest allies to a public showdown is quite remarkable. (Presidents usually do the precise opposite: they struggle to avoid any appearance of disunity.) This is a breathtaking gamble, and the question arises: Is it witting or not? Is the Administration's disdain...
That meeting marked the first major demonstration of any Faculty resistance to the notion of preregistration...
...really excited to come over here because I had this idealized notion of European TV as constantly resembling Cinemax at three in the morning. Well, I learned that it is indeed like that in continental Europe, but the daytime soft-core pornography never crossed the English Channel. Lest we forget, we Americans inherited all our Victorian notions of sexual repression from the motherland...
Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, however uplifiting, was not the end of the preregistration debate. A long battle stretches ahead to save shopping period and preserve student choice. But at least there will be a battle, a notion that seemed unlikely until Tuesday afternoon. Now students must contact individual faculty members and let them know undergraduates’ views on Kirby’s proposal. And now every member of the Faculty must examine both the administration’s flawed plans for preregistration and Tuesday afternoon’s rousing speeches to determine their own stance...
Despite the very vocal opposition to preregistration at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting, many Faculty members aren’t shedding any tears for shopping period. A few administrators say privately that some faculty like preregistration precisely because they’re hoping it will kill off the notion of shopping for classes. They don’t like feeling like a commodity to be traded around on the sudden impulses of the market. This sentiment is nothing new—an article in The Crimson from the 1950s described faculty complaints that shopping period forced them...