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There are several items that I wish to clarify with regard to The Crimson's recent coverage of three issues facing the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council: the proposed term-bill fee change, the constitutional procedure of referendum, and questions of representation...
...With regard to the second question--the constitutional procedure of the referendum--the petition did not give students the right to choose which questions they wished to see submitted to a referendum (as required by our Constitution). Thus, the Executive Board voted to invalidate four of the five questions. The council constitution says that "any question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by 10 percent of the student body...
...Whosoever saves a single Jew," teaches the Babylonian Talmud, "Scripture ascribes it to him as though he had saved an entire world." How then should one regard those who, out of indifference, cowardice or neglect, did not help Jews whose lives were in peril? The Holocaust raises that question with particular force. As Vice President Al Gore said at a commemorative ceremony in Washington last week, people who watched and did nothing share blame with the Nazis for the death of 6 million Jews...
...smoking areas, banning or limiting cigarette ads, imposing steep taxes and issuing ominous health warnings. But with a few notable exceptions, such as in Singapore and Australia, cultural attitudes and habits have largely quashed such efforts. Foreigners, who seem only too eager to inhale most aspects of American culture, regard the U.S. obsession with smoking as overwrought. "The whole thing," sniffs German teacher Waltraud Gruneisl, "borders on mass psychosis...
...details of Plath's suicide have assumed totemic significance for a cult of followers who regard her as St. Sylvia, the high priestess of suffering. On Feb. 11, 1963, she put her head in a gas oven in her London apartment as her two children, for whom she had left glasses of milk and a plate of bread and butter, slept in a nearby bedroom. Plath's husband Ted Hughes, a great poet who is now England's poet laureate, had left her months earlier for another woman. Before her death, few had ever heard of the 30-year...