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Tocsin secretary John H. Ehrenreich '63-4, who led the campaign for the change, called the decision "very encouraging." He said Tocsin will opt for the plan because "we feel that one's political associations are essentially a matter of individual conscience and should be kept as private as possible...
...world-one either believes in it or he does not. Novices do not live outside the monastery, and Harvard undergraduates do not live out of the Houses. Harvard has invested so much money and effort in its system of residential education that it is not inclined to let students opt out, any more than it would let them opt out of concentration. But this is only part of the explanation for the rule against living out-the other part is that the Houses are a monolithic conception of education, and the Masters have sufficient faith in that conception to feel...
...from the U.S., finally agreed to hand their colony over to the U.N., which would administer the territory for seven months, then turn it over to Indonesia. Under the compromise, Sukarno promises to hold a plebiscite "by 1969" to give the 700,000 primitive Papuan inhabitants a chance to opt for independence. But as Bung (Brother) Karno arrived last week for his first visit, there was something about the way he and his Indonesian troops strutted through the streets of Hollandia (renamed Kotabaru) that made many wonder if he would ever permit the region to be more than just Indonesia...
...case of Burgess and Maclean could indeed serve as a topical framework for a fictional dramatization of the rival moral claims of East and West. Why did two members of the British Establishment opt for the enemy in the cold war and turn up in Moscow with denunciations of the civilization that produced them...
Naturally, since the insane aren't terribly interesting or eloquent, Wilson's Dean Andrew Garth is not insane at all. So throughout the first act you don't really understand why he doesn't opt you. But then he says he doesn't want to live in a world full of poverty and disease and misery ("sensitive" somebody explained to me afterwards). For him the madhouse offers, if not utopia, the possible circumstances of love...