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Critizing the dangerous slide towards professionalism that college sports was taking. Gramatti asserted that sports in the Ivy League had gollen out of hand, teaching "a lack of proportion." Gramatti said. "The result of the disproportion is, in my opinion, that some students, and not a trivial number, spend for too much time with the encouragement of the institutions, on athletic pursuits...
...result of the disproportion is, in my opinion, that some students, and not a trivial number, spend far, far too much time, with the encouragement of the institutions, in athletic pursuits." --President Giamatti...
...issue of the journal Social Policy, presented an article dealing in depth with how the media tend to minimize or ignore the seriousness of recent mass anti-militarism activities Spiegelman notes, for example, that press accounts of the nuclear freezer rally in New York last June focused on the trivial aspects of the gathering. "The mainstream broadcast media presented the huge rally in a relentlessly upbeat mood. Their unmodulated celebration of the rally's size and good behavior smothered and obliterated the urgency and terror that brought so many together...
...prevents him from knowing very much about campus issues than because of his statements, moronic or otherwise. But he deserves a salute for she campus endeavors he intends to pursue whether he's chairman or not. To appreciate the University's latest celebrity, you have to ask yourself a trivial question. Before Logan Evans, what aspiring student politics ever managed to amuse, captivate or anger...
...everyone is overawed by the so-called knowledge explosion. "What happens," says Computer Scientist Joseph Weizenbaum of M.I.T., "is that educators, all of us, are deluged by a flood of messages disguised as valuable information, most of which is trivial and irrelevant to any substantive concern. This is the elite's equivalent of junk mail, but many educators can't see through it because they are not sufficiently educated to deal with such random complexity." To many experts, the computer seems a symbol of both the problem and its solution. "What the computer has done," according to Stephen...