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...read your editorial about the Law School [Dec. 5] with dismay and amusement. Your carefully written editorial neatly side-stepped both the actual and salient realities at the Law School. Perhaps your readers would gain from understanding what these are, in fact...
...this salient fact of inner rot based on pure egotism and greed which prompted the critical studies group to begin their assault on what the Law School had become. The intellectual issues are now completely obscured in personality and rancor. The root cause was never an ideological one but rather the monetization of the faculty in its drive for money, fame, and notoriety. Let us put things in their proper perspective. Benito Rakower, Ed.D...
...Crimson recently featured an editorial, a cartoon and an article by Michael Hirschorn, all criticizing a Salient article's proposal of divesting from the Soviet Union. Aside from the tasteless ad hominem nature of these pieces, and their failure to draw any distinction between the Salient and the Republican and Conservative clubs, they all display fundamental ignorance of the issues at hand. To begin with, the Crimson writers can not seem to distinguish between the national security policies and the human rights policies of the U.S. government. We have thousands of warheads pointed at the Soviet Union to defend ourselves...
...should be judged on one scale. The editorial asserts that this is simply meant to "confuse the issue," and Hirschorn asserts that the approach is a ploy, to distract from the fact that conservatives can not argue the issue of divestment on its own merits. To the contrary, the Salient has printed lengthy, reasoned articles on why divestment from South Africa is a counter-productive gesture, but they have never elicited any response. The divestment movement here is hardly concerned with the effectiveness of their proposal, and base their appeals solely on the crimes of apartheid. One must only look...
...South African society. In order to influence the Soviets, by contrast, we spend hundreds of billions in defensive and offensive weapons every year. The USSR is our stated enemy. South Africa is not, though it should be. Our foreign policies reflect this difference quite clearly, whether or not the Salient acknowledges the fact, and there is no divestment parallel that can be drawn with integrity...