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This was Bernardin's first full-dress policy statement since he succeeded the late Terence Cardinal Cooke as chairman of the bishops' Pro-Life Activities Committee. Bernardin's speech appeared to signal a renewed effort by the American church to redirect the country's thinking on what the Cardinal called the "ethic of life." It was an attempt to get liberals to re-examine the morality of abortion. Equally it was an appeal to those conservatives who condemn abortion to extend their pro-life commitment to opposing the nuclear arms race and capital punishment...
...results are roughly the same--an overwhelming majority of the students would prefer to live anywhere along the river than any where at the Radcliffe Quad. And of the Quad Houses, many consider North House the least desirable. College officials consider this a problem and they hope to redirect opinion by revamping Borth House architecturally and by sending a higher total number of people to the Quad. The first expenditure is worthwhile, the second...
...UNLIKELY COALITION of academia, business, and labor has formed to defeat the Nuclear Free Cambridge referendum. By supporting the referendum, citizens are vehemently expressing their frustration with current efforts to affect multi-lateral disarmament. They believe that the measure will serve to redirect the aim of local, national, and international movements towards the very structures which support the building of nuclear weapons. With President Bok's help and the newly formed Citizens Against Research Bans (CARB), whose major contributors include the nation's largest defense contractors, opponents of the measure have attempted to scare Cambridge voters with cries that...
Still, the demise of the program underlines the difficulties still facing Ph.D.s and suggests some ways Harvard might redirect its efforts to help them. Alumni of the program said its too-narrow approach may have hurt it by focusing only on business rather than including non-profit concerns as well. More telling, though, is the criticism that Harvard did not make strong enough efforts to publicize the program either inside or outside the University--dooming it, perhaps, to poorer enrollments and a lower reputation among such programs than it deserved...
...Black students organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one-week symbolic last (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...