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...past two years have seen Harvard's failure to establish a disciplinary body that is respected by students, Faculty and Administration. The current state of disarray that characterizes the CRR makes it singularly unacceptable for the task of upholding ideals of freedom, when it itself has violated so many parallel freedoms of judicial process. If the disciplinary process upon which the Administration seems ready to embark is to follow the scenarios of the past two springs it will only further undermine faith in the University...
...immediate purpose of Lam Son 719 never was to "protect" withdrawing U.S. troops, even though that has been the longer-range justification advanced most often by the Administration. From the start, Richard Nixon's own top advisers described Lam Son-and the parallel thrust by 20,000 ARVN troops into Cambodia-mainly as an opportunity to reap some short-term gains. One important objective was to shore up the embattled regime in Cambodia by taking further pressure off the Cambodian army to the south. Another was to blunt Communist capability to wage offensives in South Viet Nam, particularly...
...have been responsible for the largest number of breakthroughs since 1900, Deutsch and his associates concluded that "teams of social scientists seem likely to be the main source of major advances during the next decade," as they have been in the past 35 years. Supporting that contention was the parallel discovery that a handful of urban or university centers were responsible for a disproportionate number of the achievements. Chicago, Cambridge and New York accounted for one-half of all U.S. contributions. (Since 1930, the U.S. has been responsible for more than three-quarters of the breakthroughs on the list...
BACK TO PHONICS. Fortunately, the others can benefit from a parallel revival of phonics. In a program offered by New Dimensions in Education Inc., for instance, each letter is given a zany personality that makes use of onomatopoeia. Sample sentence: "When umbrella-faced Miss U stands between Mr. H's horrible hair and Mr. M's munching mouth, things begin to H.U.M...
Mendelsohn hoped that the report would have an effect on Harvard and believed that the failure of students to take the CRR seriously is the result of the faculty's own-failure to adopt parallel measures for itself last year...