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Obviously, Cerny missed out on an excellent debate between us and the Republican Club on the issue of welfare. If he had been there, he would have seen the College Democrats offering not "a defense of the status quo" but exactly what he calls for in his editorial--"progressive" solutions to "end the pervasive cycle of poverty," such as raising the minimum wage, improving public education and job training, expanding tax credits for the working poor, providing child care for single parents who want to work and extending health care coverage for those who fear losing their Medicaid coverage...
BILL CLINTON If he rides this horse too far, he'll be defender of the status quo...
...Harvard College Democrats bluster about "liberalism," their agenda is essentially a defense of the status quo. There is a name for someone with this type of outlook. It's called a "conservative." Harvard Democrats should adopt a true progressive agenda that speaks to the real concerns of our generation, not a mere echo of what the politicians in Washington's "line...
...sort of status quo, that is where Harvard hires the staff and calls the shots in terms at least of staffing patterns," Peretz said. "Another is a united board, [including all the major stakeholders]. Option three is that if students do not feel adequately represented and respected in terms of the decision making and things that they care about, they would go farther out, and that's not a desirable alternative either...
...from Marietta has pieced together a set of political ideas to offer a hopeful if hazy vision of the future and to provide conservatives with an agenda that is not simply the opposite number of their opponents'. But his chief accomplishment thus far is the destruction of the status quo. That may be the limit of his historic role. Every movement of ideas must have a human face, a person in whose integrity and wisdom people can believe sufficiently to overlook the risks and the inconsistencies contained in the new ideology...