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...commission did not find fault with the honor code in principle: "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do." However, it urged some sharp modifications of the stern system. At present, it is all or nothing: if a cadet fibs about anything, however trivial, out he goes. But the system has broken down. The commission estimated that far more than the 152 juniors who were dismissed from West Point for cheating on an electrical engineering exam last spring were actually involved...
Many of the studies seem trivial and absurd. After encountering a study like "Resource Allocation Models for the Arkansas State Police," one is hardly tempted to wade through the remaining hundreds of thousands of pages on the shelves. Neither does the prospect of learning the arcane contents of "An Annotated Bibliography of Dynamic Cloud Modeling" set the pulse racing. Yet there are many striking and subtly disconcerting papers tacked away in the stacks. For example, how did Rand researchers get the extensive bibliographical data they included in a profile done in the late '60s of an elite six-man Vietcong...
...tempting to dismiss SAE's action as a trivial, though tasteless act, but the fact that the individuals responsible felt no hesitation in exploiting a racist image, speaks not so much about these individuals but of the social establishment that perpetuates such acts. When one considers that one out of every four Chicanos lives below the poverty line, then actions like those of the SAE leave the realm of triviality. Such actions symbolize as well as contribute to a system of gross inequities. Enrico Moreno '78 For Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA
Some of Carter's attempts to humanize the presidency are either merely symbolic or trivial, but the attitude is nonetheless refreshing. In one respect, at least, it will help to establish a presidential precedent. Carter intends to go on calling himself Jimmy, not James Earl Jr. It was Jimmy Carter who signed bills, and vetoed some, as Governor of Georgia. It was Jimmy who slogged through 30 primaries. And it was Jimmy whose name was on the ballot in all 50 states on Nov. 2, even though he had to sue the state of Maine to keep it that...
...Says Herrnstein, "I know of no correlation of Burt's which is seriously challenged in the literature." But Harvard's Richard Lewontin, a population geneticist, says that Burt's work with twins "is the only large study which is methodologically correct, so its loss is no trivial problem for the heritability people. It is also not nice for them to have this mess in their backyard...