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...might not affect the final action taken by the administration, but it would at least force the University to reject publicly the student position and give the students the opportunity to demand an explanation. The idea of this sort of adversary system of decision-making in which students would confront the administration and Faculty as a unified whole gives Harvard administrators ulcers. But it would only work if students gave a damn about their government; nobody else around Harvard is going to encourage students when the chips are down. You either cover your own heads or get bumped as students...
Some argue that the decline in English standards results from the increase of mass education and from open-admissions programs-although to argue against ever widening opportunity of education is to confront one of the most cherished goals of the American ideal. In any case, teachers all along the line must play a frantic kind of catchup. Colleges blame high school teachers for sending them students who cannot read or write properly; high school teachers blame the schools below; and, with reason, nearly everybody blames the families from which the children come...
Externally, the advanced capitalist societies confront a preindustrial world full of suspicion of "economic imperialism" and eager
...decisions are left up to the majority, with guards and prisoners entitled to one vote each. "They're the ones who have to decide what to do about the smelly kitchen when the garbage isn't taken out," says Director Joseph Hickey. "They are learning that you have to confront a problem, that life is painful and that you have to deal with it." Hickey claims: "I don't do this to reform inmates. I do it to reform the system...
TIME'S valuable story on the aged points out that stiffer regulations and better enforcement of existing laws are one way to improve the quality of care for nursing-home residents. I support these moves. But I think we must also confront a more fundamental question: Will any amount of regulation make a difference in a field dominated by those whose primary motivation is maximum profits...