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There are several questions which potential deans should have to answer about student life before gaining power. Just as Rosovsky developed the Core Curriculum, his successor will still to deal with the serious objections to that system, and to the recent attempts to subvert its principles by stuffing the Core with every conceivable survey course. Rosovsky has only recently begun to emphasize the quality of teaching--from professors down to teaching fellows--and the next dean should decide from the start how much time he will take from internal Faculty disputes devote to classroom concerns, and to what extent...
This is the thrust of a one month extension proposal made by Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D.N.Y.), which passed the Senate yesterday Rep Solomon has opposed this extension because he says it would subvert the intent of the law insteal of providing colleges with more time. However, if the law is to be carried out currently--it is only non-registrants who should be deprived of aid--not those who get caught in a bureaucratic snafu. In fact, Moynihan supports the bill but understands that if the Department of Education is going to do something, it should be done right...
...have resigned. Because of increasingly vigilant press censorship, newspapers have not been able to comment on the purges. In one of its most controversial actions, the regime briefly shut down the left-wing Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet. Reason: the paper had reprinted a tough 1961 editorial criticizing reactionary efforts to subvert Turkey's cultural institutions. A military prosecutor charged Publisher Nadir Nadi, 75, who wrote the editorial, with "openly provoking people to commit a crime." The authorities also brought to trial Actress Isik Yenersu, who had read two poems by the Communist poet Nazim Hikmet Ran at a cultural event...
...floor can become a different medium altogether. It turns into street theater. Anarchy crashes the hall, like a motorcycle leaping through the window and blasting down the aisle toward the podium. The sound is an anti-language, a gust of obliterating noise from below that is designed precisely to subvert the process whereby words arrive as ideas at their destination in people's brains...
entails enormous risks for the Soviet Union which must be considered by future Soviet leaders. To Soviets have learned that the same technology they bring in to strengthen their military forces may also tend to subvert if not debilitate the moral resoluteness of the population. Increased and even continued contact with the West will increase the country's exposure to uncontrollable and corrupting influences...