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Dissident artists and intellectuals are probably not the prime target of the new crackdown. It seems more designed to warn Honecker's 17 million countrymen that overt popular discontent will not be tolerated. In a recent reshuffle of the country's top posts, Honecker demoted some relative moderates and increased the power of the hardliners...
...Chicanos at H-R RAZA would like to express our deep concern for the method that Sigma Alpha Epsilon chose to publicize their recent mixer. By employing a poster that depicts a stereotypical "Brother Chico", SAE is guilty of at best a gross indiscretion and insensitivity, or at worst, overt racism...
...prohibit women from clubs or activities that are exclusively male, it is not only a case of chauvinistic stupidity (after all who but a blind, misogynistic male would prefer the company of gruff, hoary men to the enlightened grace of Minerva's daughters?), it is also a case of overt hostility, nothing short of predatory masculine regression. We have seen the results of this barbaric intransigence--four thousand years of patriarchal domination, constant war, social oppression, genocidal atrocities too numerous to mention. Therefore it is the height of masculine imbecility, if not worse, to even compare the exclusively feminine 'Vestal...
...have been growing signs of a low morale in the country, of a yearning for stability and a better standard of living. Worse, there have been numerous reports of widespread lawlessness in such cities as Canton, Wuhan and Sian, of bank robberies, fighting among gangs of youths and even overt acts of sabotage. Then came the great earthquakes that hit China this summer, probably killing or injuring more than 1 million people and giving an urgency to the need for firm, united leadership. Indeed, it was very possible that Hua and his allies might have decided that the country could...
Jimmy Carter's now-fabled desire to avoid overt reliance on the traditional Boston-Washington axis in this year's presidential campaign consequently doesn't appear to be ruffling too many feathers at Harvard. What does concern many of Carter's hundreds of newfound advisors, however, is that their massive output may not receive adequate attention, by dint of its sheer bulk...