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...since there is no direct consultation on cases or comparative analysis done by UHS and the bureau, he cannot be sure. Morimoto feels that the bureau is positively disposed toward leaves of absence. "What we try to do for students who are considering leaving is give them a context in which they can make sense out of the advice they have received from various quarters." Morimoto says the end of the draft removed an important constraint on men considering time off; he adds that the pressure on students owing to heavy competition for places in graduate and professional schools...
...eventually be expanded to include final approval of the budgets of other non-academic undergraduate programs. Fox denies that such a move would be a centralization of authority; rather, he considers it essential to increasing the awareness of College administrators that their work must be conducted within the context of the whole College. Final approval of the budget, Fox suggests would only be a way for him to ensure that people understand where the community's priorities lie each time the budget is drawn...
McNeill denies that there is anything necessarily immoral about homosexual acts. The heart of his case is his reinterpretation of pertinent passages from the Bible, drawing on the work of other liberal scholars who say that condemnations of homosexuality were limited by the cultural context. Thus when the Law of Moses states, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination," McNeill treats this as a protest against use of homosexuality in pagan rites. When St. Paul fulminates against "men committing shameless acts with men," McNeill reads it as opposition only to homosexual activity...
...LIGHT AT THE CENTER: CONTEXT AND PRETEXT OF MODERN MYSTICISM by AGEHANANDA BHARATI 254 pages. Ross-Erikson...
Personal Encounter. In The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism, Bharati unscrews the inscrutable with the precision tools of language, philosophy and behavioral science. He lets incensed air out of inflated spiritual traditions and reputations on both sides of the world. He scoffs at the counterculture's notion of the mystical experience as a category of paranormal phenomena, and he disagrees with theologians who equate mysticism with a personal encounter with the deity. The only way to understand a mystical experience, says Bharati, is to have...