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None of the reforms which these minorities have advocated are basically revolutionary. Only a few of the students might propose an overthrow of the entire post-graduate educational system. They would question the values which the system inevitably projects on the students, and scoff at the reverence in which society holds its products. Most of the graduate reformers reflect rather the concerns with power, with style and with participation which characterize many reform movements...
...press pacification and development programs in South Viet Nam, that the budding spirit of cooperation among Asians must be nurtured, and that peace must be pursued. The important thing, he said, was not to mislead Hanoi as Hitler was misled before World War II. "I know that some people scoff at my use of Munich to illustrate this point," he said. "But you just can't laugh at the principle of it. We cannot let our indifference be their invitation...
Though U.S. surgeons are skeptical and some scoff at the procedure, Dr. Kalnberz expects that more sensation will eventually develop in his patients' fingers. He even hopes to learn how to graft a fingernail in place...
...Durable Blackball. Critics of fraternities contend that they are anachronistic because today's college students tend to be serious about scholarship, scoff at any pretentions to status, consider secret rituals something for Klans or kids, resist togetherness, applaud all moves toward individual equality. Despite official pressure against racial discrimination, the blackball system, which forfeits membership control to the most prejudiced among a chapter's members, still keeps most fraternities segregated. In the 42,000-enrollment at the University of Minnesota, not a single Negro belongs to any fraternity except all-Negro Alpha Phi Alpha. There are no Negro...
...Irish descent. They do not belong to a fashionable minority group, and therefore their demands -- and their problems -- can be dismissed with scorn. I have heard many Harvard-Radcliffe students, all thoroughly sympathetic to the civil rights movement and to the plight of the Appalachians, scoff at the idea that skilled transit workers should make more than $3.13 an hour...