Word: untruthfulness
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...clear on the grounds for its necessity. The best way to get a grip on this is to look at the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. What the history of the CRR and of student discipline at Harvard-Radcliffe in recent years shows us, above all, is the utter untruth of the myth that this University is a community of different people with a common interest-such as "the pursuit of truth." All the administration's and Faculty's efforts to punish students for political action have been founded on the premise of "academic community." The Faculty Resolution on Rights...
Pusey said that "the idea of some people-that the University is a servile slave of a rotten society-is such a deep untruth that I don't see how anyone coming to Harvard can entertain such ideas." Referring to the leaders of the April 1969 University Hall takeover, he said, "In their starry-eyed view, they think they are leading a revolution in America. They're trying to radicalize all the people. This small group of people has lived in a world of fantasy. I don't think I can reason with these people...
Harvard's conventional wisdom says that power over undergraduates' social affairs is vested in the COH. This is about 90 per cent patent untruth, though it is probably to the advantage of the administration to allow such a false impression to continue. Discontented students will waste all their time trying to deal with the antiquated Committee. In fact, the COH has a great deal of power only by comparison to the absolute impotency of student groups, like...
...regard to Andrew Jamison's article about Country Joe and the Fish in last Saturday's Crimson, I feel that it is necessary to dispel an untruth arising from Mr. Jamison's irresponsible reporting. Mr. Jamison quoted Country Joe admitting his homosexuality and neglected to account for the context in which it was said. The quote in question was originally directed to me in a conversation on the night of March 8 at the Psychedelic Supermarket, a conversation which Mr. Jamison apparently misconstrued. I had asked Country Joe what his reaction was to a fundamentalist minister's charge that rock...
...Question of Conscience (Harper & Row), Davis, 44, claims that his decision to defect was the result of his years of theological study, which gradually convinced him that Catholicism could not justify its claim to be the one true church of Christ and instead had become a "zone of untruth...