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...against question two which would express support for greater student power in college decisions. First of all, students do not necessarily know what is best for them. They can see issues such as tenure, calendar reform, housing, and college life problems in light of their own immediate needs, but seldom in light of the needs of the college and university as a whole. The expertise needed to make most of these decisions comes with experience and education. Harvard administrators and faculty are best qualified to make these decisions, particularly those in the academic realm. They were chosen for their expertise...
Most worrisome of all was the frightening documentation of what professional investors have long suspected but seldom been able to prove convincingly: many U.S. businesses are beginning to liquidate themselves by paying out to shareholders dividends they cannot afford...
...basketball and rigorous courses seldom mix, but Kiki has one of the NBA's most educated alumni as an example: His father, Ernie, who is now a prominent Southern California pediatrician, paid for his Columbia Medical School education playing guard for the New York Knicks...
...TIME correspondents assigned to this week's cover story were faced with the challenge of reporting opposing viewpoints that are equally idealistic and heartfelt. Says Los Angeles Correspondent Diane Coutu: "Perhaps more than any other story, this one reminded me that the most difficult moral choices are seldom ones between good and evil, but almost always between good and the lesser good." Joyce Leviton interviewed pro-choice activists in Atlanta and experienced one of the many ironies in the abortion fight: during a call to the vice president of the Georgia Abortion Rights Action League, she found herself listening...
...California desert adjoining Arizona has been picked almost clean of saguaro, red-barrel cacti and other species. It takes a cactus-naper 15 min. to uproot a plant that may have taken more than a century to develop. And the frail root systems of most big cacti seldom survive the shock of transplanting. Plant experts in Arizona estimate that their cactus population, a major part of the flora, will virtually have disappeared in three or four decades. Though scientists do not entirely understand the full role of Cactaceae in the delicate ecology of the desert, they do know that...