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...course it's all well and good for America to be completely committed to the defense of Western Europe. The commitment is in our own interest, for one thing, and for all practical purposes has existed for 40 years anyway. But going about it this way is madness. The unrest in Europe and the steady worsening of East/West relations supply abundant proof that the U.S. can no longer maintain this surety while acting as if it does not exist. Andropov's remarks last week once again showed that if the talks fail, the West will have only itself to blame...
Inaccuracy. "Errors of fact do more to undermine the trust and confidence of readers than any other sin we commit. A city editor I knew used to say: 'A story is only as good as the dumbest error...
...short, angry letters and righteous Crimson editorials are helpful but insufficient. Harvard must be persuaded to allow some form of student participation in faculty intention decisions. The College must commit itself to quality undergraduate education and not to academic one-upsmanship. Importantly, student, must not lost night of the real problem: we have no ability to defend our interests at Harvard-Radcliffe because we are excluded from the University's autocratic decision-making processes. Only with an adequate understanding of the problems we face can we begin to find solutions for them. Michael G. Colantuono...
...short, the obstacles erected by the University's failure to commit funds commensurate to the magnitude of the computer revolution stand in the way of almost every Harvard affiliate. Nontenured faculty in the department see no opportunity for advancement and leave; outside talent in the field are thus discouraged from pursuing a position here as well; students in the department (and in the newly created major) must await inevitable hassles in their courses; prospective undergraduates are discouraged from the study of computer science at Harvard, and may well begin to turn down the River or elsewhere; and finally, the student...
...weaker. In the wake of the reports from Charlestown, New Bedford and the University of Pennsylvania, conjectures are bound to arise about the frustration of contemporary man at the growing independence of women, and there may be some truth to that. But men have never needed excuses to commit rape in gangs. The Japanese in China, the Russians in Germany, the Pakistanis in Bangladesh. Read accounts of what some American soldiers did to Vietnamese village girls of 13 and 14 in places like My Lai, and it seems clear that the subject of gang rape goes a good deal deeper...