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Tempting, but sadly mistaken. The issues of that spring have not gone away, and the attitudes of an administration bent on limiting students' rights to free expression have hardly changed. The main issues that prompted the University Hall takeover and the strike that followed it were threefold: an end to the preferred status on campus of the armed forces Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), establishment of a viable Afro-American Studies Department, and an end to Harvard's unconscionable expansion into the surrounding community. Granted, ROTC is no longer an issue--at least for the moment--but the Faculty...
Tempting, but sadly mistaken. The issues of that spring have not gone away, and the attitudes of an administration bent on limiting students' rights to free expression have hardly changed. The main issues that prompted the University Hall takeover and the strike that followed it were threefold: an end to the preferred status on campus of the armed forces' Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), establishment of a viable Afro-American Studies Department, and an end to Harvard's unconscionable expansion into the surrounding community. Granted, ROTC is no longer an issue--at least for the moment--but the Faculty...
...traditional explanations were threefold: that lacking a profit motive, there is no incentive to run Government bureaucracies efficiently; that such organizations are, by size and character, unwieldy and unmanageable; and that the job security offered by the civil service system makes it impossible to fire incompetent employees...
...functions of the skiing captains are threefold, largely due to the absence of a full-time coach or manager. Fundraising, an enormous responsibility given the costs of transporting the team and recent cuts in its budget, involves sending letters to the 400 to 450 former members of the ski team and to the parents of current skiers. "These alumni aren't rich for the most part," Hofer said this week. "A lot of them came to Harvard from New Hampshire and Vermont and they won't make a lot of money if they go back there to live. Also...
Nitze's charts and analyses are almost impossible for laymen to follow, but buried in them are ominous figures. They conclude that from 1978 to 1985, under a SALT II treaty, the Soviet Union would increase its nuclear warheads threefold, the U.S. by a half; the Russian capacity for area destruction would go up a half, the U.S.'s equivalent capacity by onefourth; the Soviet ability to destroy our buried missiles would increase tenfold, ours to destroy theirs would go up fourfold. Nitze rejects the notion that the Soviets want only to be equal. "To them...