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Bernstein's fellow philosophy professors had unanimously recommended him for a tenure vacancy, and Professor Paul Weiss called the committee's decision "stupid, unfair, dismaying." Professor Robert S. Brumbaugh pointed out that under the committee's criteria, "we could not have gotten tenure for Aristotle when he was 32, we could not have gotten it for Kant, and on a much homelier level, I could not have gotten it." After the wave of criticism, the committee decided to consider reopening the case...
...simply retrain the idled men and rehire them to run the machines. Production goes up, and the worker rises to a higher plane of self-fulfillment and self-sufficiency. If, as often happens today, the displaced worker cannot be retrained, that is the fault of a culture which has gotten into the habit of treating its poorer members as beasts of burden. The "relations of production," not the machines, are to blame...
...current session of the General Assembly has been the least productive of any in the U.N.'s 19 years. Not only did the Assembly meet 2½ months late, but once it had gotten together, it could not adopt an agenda, it could not begin debate on its budget, and even the filling of such recherché posts as the secretary-generalship of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) required bizarre behind-the-scenes maneuvering. Last week the Assembly's 114 delegates found themselves stealthily marking unofficial secret ballots in a tiny alcove off the vast...
Although interhouse dining has barely gotten under way at Radcliffe, it is already a major administrative problem. Housemasters, senior residents, and students are opposing the current Wednesday night system because it discriminates against non-Harvard males...
Some of the student community most distinguished intellectual leaders have gotten eyestrain trying to read under the inadequate lighting in Lamont toilets. What more effective way to remedy this evil than for 4500 undergraduates to storm up the steps of Emerson Hall--or wherever the Administration is--shouting, "Might makes light! Might makes light...