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Beyond Letters. Many doctors are particularly disturbed by the inability of the poor to obtain exemptions on psychiatric grounds. "Draft evasion is a middle-class activity," says Dr. Peter La Valle, a San Francisco psychiatrist. "Poor people aren't allowed to be officially neurotic in this country." To eliminate this inequity, many physicians have started organizations like the Medical Committee for Human Rights, which has chapters serving youths in 30 cities across the country. Says Dr. Eli Messinger, a Manhattan psychiatrist who chairs the committee: "We feel that draft physicals are too rapid, and that as a consequence many...
Fuller explained that the principal cause of alienation and strife between nations was their effort to balance out the inequity of the world's resources and "to obtain those things necessary for human survival." Stating that the politicians 'method of effacing this aim have always been "incredibly stupid," Fuller placed hope in the restructuring of educational methods. He said people must begin to see the earth as a whole system with very definite limits to its capacity, and that too much attention has been given to specialization...
Under the legislation, a student also needs to obtain the approval of his freshman senior advisor or Senior Tutor and that of a Standing Committee on Special Studies in order to create his own concentration...
...reluctance by the Faculty to accept this proposal may be seen as reluctance to obtain an accurate diagnosis of the present curriculum. And if the members of the Faculty are reluctant to find out what's ailing Harvard, we can rightly suppose that they have no intention of finding cures...
...about to take over in Chile, he will probably ask the Peace Corps to leave. I do hope it is politely, because for the last seven years Peace Corps volunteers have been living and working primarily in primitive, remote villages with Chile's poor, trying to help them obtain a bigger share of their country's wealth. The volunteers helped these people realize what a "screwing" they have been getting from their country's affluent. Now at last, with U.S. help, the poor have had the courage at the polls to let their country know how they...