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...this point I imagine that the advocates of the status quo will strongly object, claiming that such a moral spin on educative processes necessarily subverts academic objectivity. I'll concede immediately that ethnic studies is a necessarily political project--the kind of deep resonances and solidarities that will be built up by such study, both within and between the newly "aware" minorities who learn more about their and other cultures, will be immense. Neo-conservatives argue in reply that such a connection necessarily contaminates the ethnic studies agenda. Advocacy in the class room is not only non-traditional, but unethical...
...parents truly object to the violence they see on the screen, they should lobby for this violence to be removed from the networks entirely, so all viewers may expect certain standards of decency, whatever they may be determined to be. Or, recognizing that television is a business like any other, they should fail to patronize the advertisers who support "objectionable" shows...
...steamy romance novel, these slightly titillating words would cause scarcely a ripple. But in West Virginia last week, they and other passages in a newly published book created a political tsunami. For "Gaston" is Democratic Governor Gaston Caperton; and the object of his beneficence was his wife Rachael Worby, conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, leader of Carnegie Hall's young people's concerts and, beyond any doubt, the most controversial first lady in the state's history...
Discounting those fundamentally opposed to organ donation, a large number of Americans seems to suffer from apathy. In a survey done by UNOS in 1991, 79 percent of the respondents did not object to organ donation, but only 39 percent said they were actually listed as potential organ donors. In elections, apathy can result in skewed outcomes; in the case of organ donations, apathy can result in hundreds of lives lost that might otherwise have been saved...
...newsgroups unacceptable for children would make a major difference in access to available porn. A law requiring those who design Internet mail systems to implement secure parental control would allow parents and teachers fuller control of what children have access to, and would satisfy everyone except those who object to such control. PETER SCARGILL Newcastle, England...