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Still, the way the boosters continued flying after the explosion prompted some experts to reject the likelihood of a burnthrough in either one. Hurled away from the exploding external tank, both rockets appeared to be moving rather stably, producing the awesome Y-shaped pattern that millions of Americans will never forget. A burnthrough on the side of the casing, several rocket specialists say, would have sent the booster cartwheeling wildly through space. Bob Truax, a retired engineer who directed the Thor missile program in the 1950s, agrees. "After the explosion, they were continuing on a fairly normal trajectory," he says...
...remarks made by him and his Vice-Chairperson, Steve Smith, which the letter quotes, have been taken by some students to encourage an "apolitical" approach to student government. As our letter explains, "We offer this referendum as a vote of confidence in the 'apolitical' approach to student government. We reject the view of student government that rejects issues of moral significance, or issues that inspire controversy, as foreign to the spirit in which the Council was created, and to the reasons for our continued existence." The referendum is not "a vote of confidence in Offut and Smith." Instead...
...offer this referendum as a vote of confidence in the "apolitical" approach to student government. We reject the view of student government that rejects issues of moral significance, or issues that inspire controversy, as foreign to the spirit in which the Council was created, and to the reasons for our continued existence. We are confident that students share our view, that the Council ought to be working (in the words of our constitution) "to seek an active role in the establishment of University policies and priorities," "to represent [students'] views," "to promote student interests, and...serve as a student forum...
...predicate our actions on fear of alienating a segment of campus opinion is to reject democracy and majority rule. It confines student government to a narrow, bureaucratic sphere. This view espoused by the Council's leadership is already taking its toll. We have considered fewer substantive proposals (and more bylaw amendments) during the course of this semester than ever before. And most of our proposals, other than social events, have responded to the work of the College administration rather than to student initiative...
...issue was divestiture; two decades ago it was a foreign war, and student participation in policy-making; two centuries ago it was "butter that stinketh not." Two years from now it may be divestiture, the draft, needblind admissions, a new foreign war, or something totally unforeseen. If we reject these for safer issues today, they will return to haunt us and undo our "safe" work tomorrow...