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Musica Orbis--8:30 pm--Sanders Theater--it's pretty hard to describe, but 5 people play a bunch of instruments. Tickets...
Which brings us now to the argument that's been around as long as pulled hamstrings; can Ivy League football stack up against the major college teams or is it glorified British Bulldog played by a bunch of guys who think that Ara Parseghian is an incurable form of cancer...
...last week the genial Brent Scowcroft, Ford's national security adviser, was on the phone to the Pentagon. Did the Army engineers, he asked, create a fake mushroom cloud for a re-enactment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima put on in Texas by a bunch of antique-airplane buffs? The Japanese were outraged. It turned out, to Scowcroft's relief, that Army engineers were not involved. But for a few perilous moments it appeared that the White House might have another illegitimate foundling on its doorstep...
Essential to this process is that as many people with as many different experiences be brought in to shoot down ideas. This means not only blacks and whites, men and women, but also physicists, biologists, and poets Everyone. If a bunch of physicists went off by themselves and excluded chemists, they might waste a lot of time on a whole bunch of ideas that the chemists could shoot down at the toss of a hat. That's why fresh insights are often gained in "interdisciplinary research...
Hubbard wants a bunch of women to go off to a closet to construct a reality. If we assume Hubbard's sexist bias that they would construct a different reality than a mixed group, then they would necessarily also come up with a lot of ideas that a mixed group could have shot down in a jiffy! What a way to blow time and energy! And what's preventing a woman from proposing ideas in a mixed group anyway...