Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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EACH NEW GENERATION of undergraduates learns the hard way about the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). With the reasons behind the decade-long student boycott of this disciplinary group shrouded in the past, College administrators seek every year to slip the CRR past House Committees and the Freshman Council, hoping they've forgotten what the CRR is or why students oppose...
...evidence to its proceedings. Students have boycotted it since its creation both to indicate their disapproval of its procedures and to protest the blatantly political nature of the motives behind its creation. Administrators have tinkered with some details of CRR's workings in response to student pressure, but the group's essential purpose remains unchanged: to co-opt some students into sitting in judgement on their peers for their political actions. Reform from within cannot alter that, and reforms alone will not improve a group with such an abhorrent purpose. Abolition, not reform, is CRR's deserved fate...
...there is hope. A surprisingly small number of war toys litter the shelves, and they tend toward acute realism. One group of "play action figures" includes a soldier with a geiger counter, presumably for mopping up after a tactical warhead explodes nearby. The collection also includes a small flag (American...
Three Harvard professors have joined an international group of scholars and politicians in an appeal to the South Korean government for the release of Kim Dae Jung, a prominent dissident facing execution...
...advertisement, the group urged the U.S. and Japanese governments to suspend all aid to South Korea if the Chun Doo Hwan government does not free...