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Despite its frequently childish espousal of childlessness, NON makes some valid points. It observes that the cultural bias against childless couples is so strong that husbands and wives cannot choose non-parenthood freely; they know they will be branded selfish, shallow and neurotic. In fact, the organization stresses, motives for parenthood are not always what they seem. Some parents use children, like drugs, to shield them from the realities of life. Others want offspring only to fulfill their own frustrated hopes, to have someone to possess and control, or to ensure financial support in their...
...skeptic has proven spiritualism to be valid, but there is a residue of the unexplained in these claimed psychic events, some occurrences that seem to defy the laws of chance or mere coincidence. It is just such phenomena that are currently being investigated by parapsychologists under the general heading of ESP, extrasensory perception: telepathy, communication from one mind to another without normal means; precognition, the prediction of future events; clairvoyance, the power to discern objects not present to the senses; and psychokinesis, the movement of material objects with the mind. While investigations go on, though, such gifts pose a problem...
...Science Center is a direct outgrowth of Conant's ideas of the 30s. And to many members of the Harvard community these ideas, as well as the Science Center, seem outmoded and no longer valid. The controversy reached so high a pitch that in 1969, Franklin L. Ford, then Dean of the Faculty, issued a public statement defending the Science Center, entitled "A Program for Science in Harvard College: Why it Must Succeed." Ford said, "The Science Center stands in the very middle of our planning, both as a badly needed physical facility and as a symbol of the educational...
...stockholders may make any change in these By-laws by a majority vote at any meeting at which a majority of the stockholders are present, except that any change that substantially reduces the voting rights of members under Article VI, 1-4...shall require, in addition, the return of valid ballots by at least twenty-five percent of the total number of all the members as of the tenth day of the month before the month in which the ballots are distributed and a favorable majority of all the valid ballots returned...
...endorses purely off-campus anti-war actions with the exception of support for the PALC demand that Harvard divest itself of stock in Gulf Oil: "A series of escalatory acts of protest and civil disobedience against the Federal government, and the support of anti-war candidates, are the only valid actions against the war" (April 22). Such an analysis suggests that Harvard's ownership of Gulf stock is the sole blemish on a pure university...