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News Editor for this Issue: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Gregory B. Kasowski '93 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Joshua W. Shenk '92 Eric S. Solowey '91 Arts Editor: Kelly A.E. Mason '92 David A. Plotz '92 Feature Editor: Melissa R. Hart '91 Sports Editor: Gary R. Shenk '92 Photo Editor: William H. Bachman '92 Business Editor: Timothy B. Paydos...
...Lady Boss by Jackie Collins -- The latest Hollywood antics of a daughter to the Mob. The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough -- 110 B.C. and all that. Four Past Midnight by Stephen King -- Novellas from the horror master. Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon -- Another plot-till-you-plotz spy novel. Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher -- Star Wars, WordStar, it all comes easy to this actress-author. The Plains of Passage by Jean Auel -- Another big woolly mammoth from the queen of ice-age romance...
...David Plotz had an excellent point to make in his February 5 opinion piece titled "Politically Correct' Thought Control." PC ideology, as a prescriptive thought process that turns students into self-righteous automatons, is as repulsive and abhorrent to the conscious and thinking individual as reactionary conservatism or his own self-defined "PW" (politically wrong) ideology. Unfortunately, Plotz's cry of "PC totalitarianism" reads as an attempt to shut up the voice of traditionally oppressed groups with accusations of reverse discrimination. Systematically bombasting the grievances of the underclass, his is a clever and insidious tactic which, like...
...Plotz, The Crimson's own Assistant Magazine Editor, may feel that the "only voice that gets heard at Harvard is the voice of the PC" but unfortunately, the only voice that seems to get acted upon at Harvard is the voice of the author's self-named "PW." Plotz's charge of "PC totalitarianism" is a blatant misrepresentation of the dominant traditionalism that exudes out of every brick at Harvard. When push comes to shove, Harvard protects its own--and "its own" is white, upper middle-class, heterosexual and male...