Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument runs like this: Small farmers are an anachronism in the computer age. Because they lack "technical expertise" these vestiges of a past era are fast selling out to the farm "manager" who "reflects wistfully" that he spends more time in a three-piece suit than in his fields. The new archetype of the farmers "who make U.S. agriculture the nation's most efficient and productive industry" is Pat Benedict, who has $3.5 million in assets, 3,500 acres planted in wheat and sugar beets, and who averages a return of 3.5 per cent on his investment. Pat runs...
WELL, you might ask, if small farms are actually more efficient than big ones, why are they being gobbled up by the likes of Pat Benedict, who in the past few years has aquired four farms? The article reports that "in three cases, he razed and burned the houses, uprooted graceful shade trees and returned all the land to crops." Time might call that progress, but the dispossessed farmers probably called it robbery...
Clearly, boycotting the CRR now has a practical rather than a purely symbolic rationale. Over the past week, several House committees and the Student Assembly have already made their stand clear by voting overwhelmingly to boycott the CRR. Although the freshman class has voted not to boycott the CRR, most Houses have decided to continue the upperclass boycott. We applaud the Houses' action, and urge the remaining House to follow suit, sending a message to the Faculty that it must accept the entire set of reform proposals before students can begin to acknowledge the legitimacy...
...Kirkland House last Friday forced University officials to take a number of steps to stop the infection from spreading, including the unpopular move of banning all interhouse dining. University Health Services administrators' recent decision to lift the interhouse ban tomorrow indicates they believe the threat of infection is past, just days after they emphasized the possible dangers of widespread salmonella infection...
...well-trained scholars. Bruce Collier, special assistant to Dean Rosovsky, outlines the facts: In the early part of the century, Harvard granted tenure to over 50 per cent of its junior faculty. In the early 60s, about 20 per cent of the in-house faculty received tenure. Over the past five years, less than 6 per cent...