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This well-intentioned plan not only violates civil liberties, but it is a false panacea which fails to address the root of the problems which Hart and Toricelli aim to solve...
...reason minority youths cannot find jobs or read and write is because too little money is spent to teach them how. A draft won't solve this problem in our society, and it will divert our attention from the root of the problem...
...regional voting last March. Party strategists estimate that there is solid support for the Socialists among only 22% to 24% of the electorate. To achieve the magic 30%, the Socialists must make gains on both the left and the right. How to do that is at the root of all the soul searching within the party...
...FIRST ISSUE to consider is that of pressure. At the root of the opposition to the granting of an honorary to the President is the implicit notion of Harvard as a pressure group in our society. Some members of our community may prefer to call it "making a statement" or "putting Harvard's influence behind a moral stand" (that is, when they don't fall back on the cop-out of "he's not worthy"). But when all is said and done, breaking the long-standing precedent of offering honorary degrees to Presidents on major Commencement dates--Roosevelt 50 years...
However, it's not inherently a condemnation to say that the root of the opposition to Reagan's reception of an honorary is political. Reagan, the Presidency itself, and most of our society is soaked through and through with politics of one sort or another. The interesting thing is that so many members of our community feel compelled to couch it in other terms ("worthiness," for instance). What this incident shows about Harvard is that we are passing through a sort of uneasy transition period in which some acts of purely political pressure are acceptable, and some...