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...among other things the Council was established "to represent our (the undergraduates' of Harvard-Radcliffe) views" and that the student-ratified Constitutions provides us with a most direct means for discovering those views: referenda (article III, section 5). I fear that the Crimson's argument is a two edged sword: if we attempt to learn Constitution opinion, we are levelling an "insult" as students who have paid for us to "make" decisions for them; yet, if we failed to do so, we would have been lambasted for ignoring the wishes of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates--the people whom we serve. Greg...
...American invasion of Grenada is obviously a military success. However, the real battle will be won with food, health, education, human rights and jobs for the masses in the Third World. Social justice is stronger than the sword...
...Memphis Press-Scimitar (as in sword) folded on Halloween. It was known as a blue-collar paper. The next morning, the Commercial Appeal, which is not known as a blue-collar paper, announced that among the many changes to come, the newspaper would be made "easier to read." To boot, a full one-fourth of the front page was occupied by a color photograph of a black man picking cotton, a quaint idea in an enormous amount of space. Alas, it seemed, a newspaper had finally reached a par with television: it had managed to torment one's intelligence...
...there is a waiting list for the new group that the three therapists will start as soon as they can find a roof for it (in Berkeley there are, literally, more groups trying to meet each night to support or empower each other in meditation, martial and marital arts, sword dancing and the like than there are places to put them...
...loco parentis. In loco parentis is that nifty doctrine that lets school officials act as your own parents by, say, letting House Masters serve alcohol in the sherry hour, as your own parents presumably do in their own home. Administrators sharpen the double edge of this legal sword by claiming that acting in loco parentis--"in the place of your parents"--they can search students persons and lockers without constitutionally required warrants or probable cause...