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This two-tiered system particularly rankles with younger Jesuits who do not want to be relegated forever to second-class status if they prefer to promote social justice in slums rather than write books and man classrooms. Since recruitment to the order has become a serious problem (membership dropped from 36,038 in 1965 to 29,436 last year), the fourth vow was high on the agenda when the General Congregation was convened by the progressive Basque who heads the order, Superior General Pedro Arrupe (TIME cover, April 23,1973). Many of the 1,020 postulata (proposed changes) that flowed...
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, longtime ecumenical envoy between Jews and Christians, praised some aspects of the guidelines as "constructive," but took grave exception to other parts. Tanenbaum said that "no self-respecting Jew" could live with passages that "imply a religious 'second-class' status" for Judaism. What especially grieved Tanenbaum and other Jewish critics was the guidelines' silence on Jewish historic and spiritual ties to the land of Israel. Any definition of contemporary Judaism that does not consider "the inextricable bonds of God, People, Torah and Promised Land," wrote Tanenbaum, "risks distortion of the essential nature...
Harvard should stop treating its workers like second-class citizens, unworthy even of the minimal respect workers get in industry or business. Its status as a university does not change its status as a major employer and corporation. Sooner or later the University will have to stop using its academic functions as a convenient shield against the intrusions of real-world responsibilities, and give its employees the pay and respect they deserve...
...kingdom that would exclude Palestinians from power unless they opt for Jordanian nationality. An anti-Palestinian movement has sprung up among East Bank Jordanians. They are urging the King to approve a law that would in effect make Palestinians who fled to the East Bank after 1948 second-class citizens. They would be given passports but would be denied the right to vote...
...most public example of a common malaise afflicting all of Harvard academia to a lesser or greater degree. Regardless of degree, its symptoms are the same: an ingrown and complacent faculty too much concerned with research to the neglect of teaching, and a definition and acceptance of students as second-class citizens...