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...point: secrets and lies pervade the selection process. Although the committee has postered in various houses for suggestions from seniors, the names voiced in the process are non-binding suggestions only. The values which undergird those preferences are second to those of the elected committee. Now, this process ought to be sufficient since committee members are elected representatives. But is George Clooney all right by anyone's standards? Certainly...
...committee ought to consider whether the speaker is challenging. If a sense of challenge were considered to be as good a criteria as the others, we could get earnest political activists instead of politicians. What about wisdom? Why not try to hear from someone who is wiser than us--and not wise in the sense of erudite, but someone who is knowing in the ways of the world, like a distinguished author? Or someone who is able to speak to transcendent values? A religious figure who might be able to give us some perspective on our temporal successes...
...ineptitude involves making the council's leadership less protected by the privileges of incumbency. Up for debate on Sunday is "The Moderator Bill," which we support. Although we realize that the council president currently has the power to cede the chair during meetings, we feel that a technocratic moderator ought to be in charge of the weekly meetings in the style of the British Parliament. We do not believe that this will depoliticize the meetings' agenda to a great extent, but we do think that this will encourage more substantial debate and discussion than currently exists...
MOSCOW: History is a cruel and capricious mistress, a fact of which nobody ought to be more aware than Pizza Hut poster boy Mikhail Gorbachev. The man once feted as the visionary whose reforms brought down the Iron Curtain has been reduced to a prop in a fast food...
...boycott is the United Farm workers Union, and the union benefits at the cost of all non-unionized workers. By claiming that supporting the boycott somehow upholds human rights, the dean's office makes the implicit statement that only unionized grape pickers have human rights, a statement that ought to be rejected by all thinking human beings. In not taking such factors into consideration in their exhortation, the FDO has acted in a morally reprehensible fashion. The Bulletin, a publication supposedly printed to provide important information to first-years, should not be a source of questionable political propaganda. I believe...