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...student body. Another strength in the plan is that the Council would become smaller; along with the added prestige commanded by a small group should come tighter, more responsible organization and more productive meetings. Still, the fact that this system is no remarkable change from the status quo leaves serious doubt that it will solve the Council dilemma: lack of communication and respect...
Only in this spirit could one have heard a Master say of the rule that parietals end when House functions begin: "I wouldn't want to defend it, but I'm not going to change it." A nervous adherence to the status quo is the only way to avoid facing the very disturbing problems behind the parietal rules...
Judgement on whether to allow the South Africans to remain in the Commonwealth turns on whether one feels there is any hope there. Everyone condemns apartheid, and certainly no one at the conference desires to support the tragic status quo in that unhappy land. But cutting South Africa loose would in no way improve its plight. Isolation would worsen the lot of the blacks, since the Afrikaaners would be driven through fear to worse repression, and it would weaken the position of the English-speaking population, the only soil for the seeds of change in the whole country. Severing...
...Cambridge. All it's interested in is building its own apartments and dormitories--it is only interested in Harvard." Because of this entrenched isolationism, five years ago Vellucci proposed to make Harvard a separate city in itself, "like the Vatican." To him, this would only have legitimized the status quo. He even suggested an exchange of ambassadors between city and university. And, "That's how Whitlock and Steele (Assistants to the President for Civic Affairs) came," he proudly asserts...
...educational leader requires a freedom to experiment which can come only if the Houses remain cohesive units, not overburdened with the pressures of crowding. In direct opposition, some administrators feel that a slight increase in needed as a stimulus to educational innovation and as a check against status quo complacency...