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...Course. Speaking for the court majority, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger relied largely on the clear fact that church exemption is a U.S. tradition. He admitted that exemption "necessarily operates to afford an indirect economic benefit" but he felt that the practice does not produce the kind of governmental "sponsorship, financial support and active involvement" that the First Amendment's drafters intended to guard against. It is no more an aid to religious organizations than other forms of assistance permitted by the court, including the use of state funds to pay for the busing of parochial school pupils...
...program for the week includes the inauguration of a network of bikeways throughout Cambridge, the promulgation of safety information for bicyclists and motorists, the installment of bike-parking stands, and the sponsorship of a series of outings for riders...
...campaign is now in progress to reinstate military training programs in the graduate schools, and Dean May, a member of the ROTC negotiating committee. said yesterday that the ROTC issue could conceivably be reconsidered in terms of sponsorship by a graduate faculty...
John Scovell. a second-year business student and leader of the group of Army ROTC cadets who have petitioned the Law and Business School deans to consider sponsorship of ROTC programs, stated that over half of all ROTC students were enrolled in graduate schools...
Some angry young black artists consciously paint black. Others of the generation that came of artistic age during the time of the new black militancy are painting and sculpting in styles ranging from expressionist to minimal, and they resist being classified racially. All these artists generally resent white sponsorship, even while recognizing that they have to deal with the white Establishment. As black men, they must approve the new recognition won by black artists. But as artists, they dislike the white man's current celebration of them merely because they are black. As one artist put it: "The black...