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...wrong to assume that East Germans are as disenchanted with their political system as are many of their bloc neighbors. GDR citizens aren't clamoring to trade their government subsidies, guaranteed health care and the highest standard of living in the Eastern bloc for higher prices, unemployment, a declining birth rate and the impersonal chaos of capitalism in their western counterpart...
...article last Monday on a study of the Soviet legal system incorrectly quoted Lowry Wyman, a fellow at the Russian Research Center. Wyman actually said in the Soviet Union, "...there is a tendency to have the courts run by the administration rather than the judiciary...
...Katz says that endorsing the non-ordered choice proposal would be caving in. Most people, including Katz it seems, don't fully understand what non-ordered choice would mean for them. If we had non-ordered choice with three choices, the only difference between it and the present system would be that around percent fewer of the students would get their first choice (33 percent instead of near 50 percent) and 20 percent more of the students would get their third choice (33 percent instead of around 10 percent). Also, non-ordered choice has an added benefit in that around...
...main thing that Katz fails to remember, though, is that Harvard is not a democracy. Although it would be nice if the Undergraduate Council had the power to decide what housing system Harvard should use, the decision will be made by Dean Jewett with advice from the house masters. I have talked to Jewett and most of the house masters about the issue, and there seems to be a consensus that Harvard needs to change its housing policy...
Acknowledging this fact is difficult, but it is important for us to do so if we are going to make effective proposals. Since Jewett released the data on the makeup of the different houses, the debate among the house masters has shifted from whether to change to housing system to how much we should change the housing system...