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Opponents to merger argue that its benefits are illusory. Believing that the problem of equal access is secondary to reform of the institution to which women seek admission, the most extreme group claims that no good can come from merger with the callous and unjust University. But whatever the issue, women are now in no position to change anything, although they continue to be affected by Harvard's policies. Through merger, women can become a pressure group within the University more difficult to disregard than "those Radcliffe bitches...
Powell, a 5-to-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court last March struck down a Texas lawsuit that aimed at greater equality of spending in education. Although it may be unjust for wealthy school districts to have more money to spend on education, the court said, these inequities in local taxes* should be solved by the states and local communities themselves. Since then, a number of them have been trying to do just that...
...Army-bound O'Brien, there were agonizing decisions to be made. He wondered if it was the morally courageous choice to abandon his country rather than join it in making unjust...
...Instead of courageously choosing prison or exile when asked to fight an unjust war, the tortured P.O.W.s [April 9] chose to bomb civilian populations. Yes, they paid for it, but not nearly as harshly as their victims did. Let's not make heroes where there are none...
Pete Broer, who took the 145 Ib. crown, said yesterday that the protest was disturbing, unjust and misdirected. "The Lowell House protest should be aimed at their House athletic secretary, who is forcing them to participate, and not at the sport of boxing," he said. "It seems to me that he is the real object of such a protest...