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...Radcliffe Government Association and Phillips Brooks House begin a service program that will allow participants to enter VISTA or the Peace Corps without going through training. PBH's Social Service Committee, established in 1894, may be abolished; volunteers would work more closely with the staffs of settlement houses. The Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee recommends that all students be allowed to take a fifth course in which they would be graded either "passed" or "failed." The Radcliffe Social Rules Committee recommends that some sign-out rules be liberalized and some be made stricter...
...advanced by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in Montreal two weeks ago. This idea, by no means original with McNamara, calls for a program under which each American youth must spend a year or so in a national organization of his choice -the military, the Peace Corps, the Job Corps, VISTA or some other public service. Last week, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, General Hershey pooh-poohed the idea as too expansive and too expensive. Since no fewer than 1,800,000 youngsters come of draft age each year, he seemed to be absolutely right about the cost. And the potential...
...VISTA, CAP, TAP, PROP, DWOP, HARYOU and related programs should be combined in a new government agency, Federal Legislation on Poverty (FLOP...
...pianist, studied dance with Martha Graham and Hanya Holm before forming his own company in 1956. Now 54, he no longer dances, but concentrates on developing a theater of the "total happening," in which "man is taken out of this world and put into the universe." From that vista, the view is sometimes self-conscious and distorted, but the message comes through. Says Nikolais: "We've got to make our peace today with a lot more things than our fellow...
Finally, a man should have a choice of alternate means of service: Peace Corps, Teachers Corp, Vista, and selected private agencies of social action. Since a universal draft is not envisioned here, these non-military organizations would not have to alter their admission standards. The only bureaucratic shuffling required would be the establishment of ROTC-like programs, so that students accepted by non-military agencies might complete their education before serving...