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...present system is inherently unfast, any result short of universal acclaim will be an indictment against it. The housing lottery as it presently exists, with students expressing their choices and hoping for the best, seeks the happiness of some (the 69 percent who get their last choice) at the unjust expense of others (the 31 percent who don't, and the 9 percent who are assigned to none of their three choices). The Undergraduate Council poll will legitimate the present lottery system almost as much as a survey in a Roman coliseum might have legitimated feeding Christians to the lions...
...perhaps that which was most recalled to me by Bishop Tutu's remarks. Both Tutu and King impressed the listener with their moral certitude that the existing order was unjust, and their faith that injustice can be changed by moral actions of individuals--their common Christian conviction. In those years, it was common to hear the protest of the southern white. "But you can't legislate love." Presumably few expected to see the South come spontaneously into a state of perfect Christian love and then integrate of its own volition. Yet, in the few short years since the Civil Rights...
...when they have no choice or when they believe that the wait is justified by the reward-a concert ticket, say. Waiting has its social orderings, its rules and assumptions. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time. It is unjust; suffering is not being fairly distributed. Oddly, behavioral scientists have found that the strongest protests tend to come from the immediate victims, the people directly behind the line jumpers. People farther down the line complain less or not at all, even though they have been equally penalized by losing...
...Israeli vehicles. Israeli officers may question and detain Arabs at will, though residents may also appeal what they regard as unjust or illegal actions to the Israeli Supreme Court...
...member of the Administration did declare that 'we are being savaged on the fairness issue' and that the President should mount a campaign to convince the public of how unjust it was to call his government unfair. But this President is too smart and not profound enough for that. He never appears to feel savaged. When he seems to savage himself, it is by saying something to blithely beside the point that thinking persons are nonplussed...