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...student members then depend on the faculty members of CUE to defend their case before the Faculty Council, but in the past the professors have rarely relished the task. Because the CUE rarely takes a vote--preferring to "reach a consensus," as Bowersock calls it--and because many of the faculty members remain silent during much of the CUE discussions, students often have no idea what faculty members think of their ideas. "We figure if they are quiet," Henderson deducts "they (the professors) don't object...
Universities depend on school spirit and enthusiasm for alumni support. Successful football teams are vital to many schools for this, but for Princeton, the Tigers merely have to take the field to give graduates an excuse to send another check to Nassau Hall...
...difficulty of course arises when it would be possible for you to support him and take care of him, but you would rather not. You might agree if the demand were only for an evening, but hesitate if it were for the rest of your life. Do rights then depend upon the time factor? You could claim a certain moral responsibility towards another human being. But it is hard to say that he has the right to force you to support him. You are not legally required to help an old lady across the street...
WHEN Carter and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) face off in the coming economic debate, as much will depend on the wording of questions as on what people answer. That New York Times poll of October 19, for example, states that 40 per cent of Americans believe inflation is the country's worst problem. Another 20 per cent say energy is the biggest problem. For so many people to sunder the two issues--and for the Times to go along--is appalling, as though you could separate the political problems of oil and gasoline from their price...
...most cases, the new Caribbean nations depend on their former colonial masters to buy their largely agricultural products. Trapped between their dependence on the one hand and their need to assert their independence on the other, many have adopted an anti-Western stance. Even though Cuba survives only by massive infusions of Soviet aid (an estimated $2.5 billion a year), Castro's nose-thumbing attitude toward the U.S. and his admitted achievements-notably the elimination of illiteracy-provide an alluring model for Cuba's neighbors. Says Abraham Lowenthal, a U.S. authority on Latin America: "These countries are satellites...