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Reynolds' rhetoric shows how profoundly the Administration misunderstands--or wishes to subvert--the nature and function of the judiciary. Reagan and team are playing games with the Constitution and mocking the court. The real goal, Reynolds has now told us virtually point blank, is not communion with the ideas of the Founding Fathers or a judiciary that defers to the other branches of government, but rather a right-wing Court...
Harvard today confronts challenges from within and without that threaten to subvert that mission. The gravest threats are cloaked in good intentions...
Some Americans think that the Reagan Administration wishes to subvert civil liberties in the cause of a majoritarian orthodoxy, that Reaganism tilts too much toward democracy and away from freedoms. Democracy and freedom, fraternal twins and sibling rivals, do not always get along well with each other. The genius of the Founding Fathers was in their construction of a legal and political system that protected minorities from the possibility of a tyranny of the majority. Says Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union: "They recognized for the first time ever--and pretty much for the last time...
Meanwhile, other antiapartheid activists took a less confrontational tack. On Easter Sunday a conference of 1,500 black teachers, parents and students decided against a national school boycott. Instead, the group urged students who had engaged in sporadic local boycotts to return to their classrooms and subvert the school system from within...
Schmidt is determined to reserve time for his academic pursuits and spend much of his presidential energy redefining Yale's academic goals, which some critics feel have become blurred in recent years. He wants no admission policy changes that could subvert the progress Yale has made from being a refuge for old blue bloods to becoming an institution with a 17% minority representation among undergraduates. Another priority is the need to correct Yale's faculty balance of only 18.7% women and 7.8% minorities. Schmidt also is set on shoring up Yale's natural-science studies, along with a moribund engineering...