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...coupling of spirituality and political sentimentality" dismayed the Christian Century's editors, who assailed "those who find their security in sanctifying the status quo." Raising a different objection, the Rev. Dudley Ward, a general secretary of the United Methodist Church, thinks Nixon should attend local churches and not confine his devotions to the White House. Says Ward: "European royalty had its private chapels, insulated from the wider community. The President represents the nation and the people, and cannot isolate himself from the important institutions in our national life...
...opinion, the status quo with respect to Afro-American Studies at Harvard is not satisfactory. Quite a number of courses recognize the existence of black men in the development of America; quite a bit of expertise is already available. However, merely recognizing black men as integral segments of certain overall social processes is not good enough. We are dealing with 25 million of our own people with a special history, culture, and range of problems. It can hardly be doubted that the study of black men in America is a legitimate and urgent academic endeavor...
...Politburo Member Boleslaw Jaszczuk was given the task of overseeing all economic development in Poland. Whether the new men can engineer the sweeping changes that Poland really needs remains to be seen. But the switches seem to indicate that the regime has finally admitted the bankruptcy of the status quo...
...activists did not think the poor turnout at their Monday meeting meant that most East Asian Studies students were satisfied with the status quo. "It might be Christmas vacation or poor publicity...
Some of the forces protecting the status quo are: 1) high fees, 2) inadequate scholarship programs, and 3) conscious admissions policies which act to preserve Harvard's financial and influential position and keep producing leaders of the country. This amounts to what Labaree called "an avowed orientation toward the goal of the education of the ruling class of tomorrow, whom it recognizes largely as the sons of the ruling class of today...