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...Janet Tassel's "The 30 Years War: Cultural conservatives struggle with the Harvard they love." The first was from Undergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00: "ROTC being diminished on campuses means that the higher level officials in the military come from the academies or southern schools; as a result there isn't that liberalizing force in the military." The second is from Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington: "I absolutely favored the retention of ROTC, and I still think it should be here.... [It] is highly desirable for the military. One of the reasons for My Lai, for instance...
...such quirky traditions need strong sources, why do they continue? Perhaps because Harvard students are, in some sense, natural conservatives: they respect the age and mystique of their surroundings, find even godless festivals inviting, and continue baseless customs and pure traditions as a result. If this is true, one need not worry about House character which consists of the various traditions which separate one House from another. House community, however, is a horse of a different color...
...maintain, if not increase, current research efforts. The programs are threatened by the federal spending caps enacted by Congress during the 1997 budget agreement, which allowed President Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to claim victory while delaying the hardest choices for a few election cycles. The result is that even in a boom economy with a government surplus, many vital programs will have to be cut for the spending caps to hold. Although the spending caps are likely to be exceeded, a long and bitter debate will certainly come first, as programs jockey for funding...
...part, these lobbying efforts may be a result of self-interest; Harvard is a beneficiary of federal research funds. In April, Rudenstine and the University similarly lobbied Congress to maintain funding levels for teaching hospitals, of which Harvard Medical School is affiliated with more than a dozen...
...Monday, many people realized for the first time that Dan Quayle was actually trying to run for president. Unfortunately for the former veep, this burst of much-needed attention comes only as a result of his decision to drop out of the race for the Republican nomination. Awash in debt, his campaign has struggled not only with financial issues but also what could politely be called a credibility gap ? the shadow of Quayle?s infamous "potatoe" gaffe and his talent for the non-sequitur ("Had I known I was going to Latin America, I would have studied...