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...fall of 1975-it is a sound proposal. By assigning freshmen to Houses before they arrive, the plan would eliminate free choice. Although that is an attractive goal to lose, Harvard's present housing system does not allow this goal to be attained. With pre-assignment the meaningless anguish surrounding the current choice system would be avoided. Students assigned to a House with a second-class image would enjoy their House far more than they would after a freshman year of indoctrination. Such a plan coupled with the task force's recommendations to allow transfers in sophomore year...
...Affirmative Action program is a set of specific and result oriented procedures which a contractor commits himself to apply every good faith effort. The object of these procedures plus such efforts is equal employment opportunity. Procedures without effort to make them work are meaningless; and effort; undirected by specific and meaningful procedures is inadequate. An acceptable AA program must include analysis of areas within which the contractor is deficient in the utilization of minority groups and women, and further, goals and time tables to which the contractor's good faith efforts must be directed to correct the deficiencies and, thus...
...Spewing out such terms as "class conscious protest," the "Imperialist puppet regime," and "the Stalinist deformed workers state," the author fights to disguise her letter's basic implausibility. Reading like a typical showpiece for any sort of disreputable organization, the letter struggles for legitimacy by using technical jargon and meaningless prose. Appropriately enough, the letter closes with further allusions to "imperialist spies," "imperialist research," and "imperialist butchery...
Over the years it has gradually become the mark of the philistine to search for the meaning of a Pinter play. Presumably one may compound the charge of philistinism by suggesting that No Man's Land is substantially meaningless. This does not prevent it from being eruptively funny, elegiacally melancholy and wonderfully literate...
James Q. Wilson and his task force on core curriculum started with the premise that General Education needs to be changed. But the task force has arrived at a conclusion that stands greatly at increasing liberalization. Instead of recommending that the now relatively meaningless requirements be scrapped in favor of a system that would advise students to take courses deemed worthy of a General Education, it has suggested that a series of restrictions be imposed that would force students to take a limited number of offerings in seven fields...