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...success has been its departmental audits. "This strikes me as being the real payoff. There is nothing like it anywhere," Dean Monro, one of the HPC's staunchest allies, has said. When this program was originally set up during the HPC's first year, chairman Michael E. Abram '66 and audit committee chairman Evan Davis '66 planned to investigate seven departments a year, so that each department would be reviewed every four years...
...widely, a new audit has few precedents to rely on. And the time-consuming work involved must come from students who themselves have no stake in the HPC. As a result, only six audits have been completed (Government, Applied Math, Chemistry, English, Biology, and Classics), with varying degrees of success...
...stroke of luck, the most successful audit (in terms of proposals accepted) was the first and most highly-publicized one, the Government Department audit. That audit combined hard-working subcommittee members with a cooperative department chairman, and the spill-over from that success has set the tone for the whole program. "It acted as a catalyst for other departments," Riesman has noted; he feels that it helps a reform-minded Faculty member to be able to say authoritatively that "the students want this." Chalmers too thinks that the audits have been the HPC's most valuable contribution. "They make people...
...Successful guerrilla-led revolutions, which the Administration insists on calling "wars of national liberation"--a communist term carrying the connotation of Chinese domination--are rare because all of the conditions necessary for their success seldom occur simultaneously. Such wars have succeeded only where the guerrillas have seized both the mantle of social revolutionary or reformer and that of nationalist hero who drove out the foreigner--as in Yugoslavia, China, Algeria and Vietnam. Where guerrillas have been unable to capture the banner of nationalism--either because of ethnic problems, as in Malaya, or because of the absence of a foreign invader...
Revolutionary guerrillas are currently gaining strength in northeast Thailand. Their success came only after the large-scale U.S. military build-up there in 1965, not before. It is this massive U.S. military presence which may provide the guerrillas with a viable issue--removal of the omnipresent Yankees--on which they can unite the minority people of the northeast with the ethnic Thai majority in a revolutionary uprising...