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Given these guys’ records, both have other things they ought to be worrying about besides the Atlantic Rift. Kissinger could start with an apology, then maybe move on to 80 billion hours of community service in Cambodia. If Summers is still looking for an extracurricular to keep him busy, maybe he could take another look at the current state of the nations his policies helped “develop...
...postwar oil production—not to mention the strategic interest the U.S. stands to gain in prying open the door to OPEC. It is at times like these, when discordant national interests butt heads, that the survival of the U.N. is most tenuous—and the U.S. ought to do more than give lip service to the virtues of collective action if it truly hopes to ensure the organization’s survival...
Responding to the divestment question, which Pulitzer Professor of Modern Art Yve Alain-Bois raised during a question period, Summers said that the Faculty as a whole ought not to take a position on political issues...
Verba said the Faculty ought to distinguish between policies relevant and irrelevant to academic life in determining which debates to bring to the Faculty forum. While Faculty members should be free to address questions of divestment individually, he said, the Faculty should debate and be allowed to take a stance on an issue as close to the interests of the University as academic freedom...
...long past time that the final clubs went co-ed. The existence of men’s only clubs on campus is an embarrassment to the administration, the alumni and the student body. Current members ought to recognize the injustice in which they participate and demand that their graduate leadership allow women to be invited to join the clubs next fall. The administration ought to make their position on the clubs more clear, without resorting to the excuse that these private organizations cannot be pressured by the strength of the wealthiest university in the country. Princeton and Yale forced...