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...find that the major responsibility for the incidents occurring on the Kent State University campus on May 2, 3 and 4 rests clearly with those persons who are charged with the administration of the university." It charged that ineffective policies over a period of years had rendered the uni versity "totally incapable of reacting ... in any effective manner." The university, the jury found, "can no longer regulate the activities of either [students or faculty] and is particularly vulnerable to any pressure applied from radical elements." The Scranton commission, while avoiding direct critical comment on the school's administrators, noted...
...Utopias, Brave New World and 1984, they depicted future dictatorships made all the more oppressive by relentless efficiency. The counter-cult has strong expression in modern science fiction. Example: in This Perfect Day, Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby, describes a futuristic society ruled by a gigantic computer, Uni, which calculates the most "efficient" assignments of careers for its many human subjects and, like a computerized dating service gone wild, even mates them...
...Rosemary's Baby, has odd minor fascinations-like the work of a soap sculptor or a first-rate Christmas cookie frost-er. It is set a couple of centuries hence and rather predictably envisions mankind living passive and at peace under the tutelage of a gigantic computer named Uni. It doles out compulsory, will-killing drugs and makes the major decisions of every man's life. Yet the characters seem more pompous than drugged. The plot, despite a few captivating wrinkles, is the classic man-beats-awesome-machine gambit borrowed from science fiction...
Perfect Day's main appeal, however, is not to sci-fi addicts but to collectors of Utopian minutiae. In Uni-land, for instance, men have no beards. Women have no breasts, but whether for sheer efficiency or simple streamlining one never knows. Everybody dies at exactly age 62. Sex begins at 14 and can be had with anyone one likes, but on Saturday night only. So much for tub night...
Harvard kept the Andover team at bay in the second period with a well-oiled passing attack, and uni?ashed a barrage of shots at the spunky Blue netminder. But Andover showed a lot of poise in tightening up its defense and gave up only two goals to Hynes and Harry Reynolds...