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...must recognize that such preference for parochial moorings are not rights--requiring inputs by the wider college community for their enjoyment. Thus Mormon and Jewish students wishing to enjoy parochial moorings while trekking Harvard's cosmopolitan turf turn to their respective ethnic communities for the funds and resources to sustain this preference...
...pathetic and disorienting contradiction for Black students like Timothy Wilkins and also Anthony Ball of the Third World Students Alliance to ask others (whites)to generate resources to sustain their parochial preferences. If such Black students entertain any serious intention of aiding resolution of the crisis of social pathologies facing some one-third of Black Americans who are in or near poverty, they have to rid themselves of an immature and phony perspective toward ethnic leadership. Blacks with wealth and institutional resources will have to put some of these on the line (not just ethnocentric theatric)in order to upgrade...
...dancing in the streets, ogling the girls in the shower, getting crazy drunk and tearing up the strip in a "borrowed" Porsche and grossing out Mom and Dad. Sentient adults must unite to cry: Enough already! The glandular convulsions of adolescence are just not interesting or complex enough to sustain the plots of half a hundred Hollywood films each year...
...says Eugene Kennedy, a former priest who teaches psychology at Chicago's Loyola University. "A fair argument could be made that the Catholic Church in this country is what it is because of women. The whole parochial school system was built by women. So if you lose women, you sustain a loss that you can't make up." That is exactly what is happening in women's religious communities now, says Pat Reif of Immaculate Heart College Center in Los Angeles: "Women are voting with their feet. It's a sharing of power we're after." The statistics, however...
...private economy has been lightened. But that progress and the current bright prospects for the future can easily be destroyed by fiscal irresponsibility. The next six months will test whether our political system can produce the tough fiscal legislation that is now required if we are to sustain the progress that has been made and realize the full potential of our economic future...