'Parental rules' at Harvard
(Editor's note: John Kenneth Galbraith, distinguished economist and author and former U.S. ambassador to India, made the following observations in a letter printed in the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Alumni Bulletin.)
I can't tell you how depressing it is to find Harvard having another discussion of these so-called parental rules (governing the hours when women guests may visit undergraduate rooms).
FOR FORTY YEARS, undergraduates with a special talent for banal controversy, and no doubt a secondary interest in sex, have known that this subject could be counted on to arouse certain frustrated materialism which lurks, however unhappy, in the interests of any academic administration.
The resulting debate has invariably combined exceptional dreariness with a crushing misinterpretation of the nature of a university.
THE RESPONSIBILITY of the university to its students is to provide the best teaching that can be associated with the scientific, literary, artistic or other scholarly preoccupations of the faculty.
Additionally, it provides libraries, laboratories and, though less indispensably, places of residence. Once, when Harvard College was in part a privileged academy for the socially visible, it needed to assure parents that their more retarded offspring would have the supervision of men of the scoutmaster type, who, however ineffectually, would try to protect them from the natural penalties of indulence, alcohol or lust.
OTHERWISE NEEDED and prestigious clients would be committed to other institutions. All this, happily, is now over. Thousands of men
and women clamor for admission for the serious purposes of the university. It can be part of our bargain that they look after themselves.
Accordingly, rules need only reflect the special requirements of the academic community the quiet, good order and opportunity for undisturbed sleep that facilitate reflections and study.
No effort need be made or should be made to protect individuals from the consequences of their own errors, indiscretions or passion. Parents of Harvard and Radcliffe applicants who feel their children need a more protective environment should, no doubt, be put firmly on notice so that they may send them elsewhere.
IT IS CLEAR that from among those who accept this bargain we will have all the students we can accommodate and presumably they will be more mature.
We will need waste no energy or money in providing the surrogates of parenthood beyond the appointed time. There will be misfortunes, but it will be recognized that these are inherent in personality and not the result of failure of efforts to control it.
OUR DEANS will be able to turn gratefully to the more welcome tasks of teaching and scholarship. Above all, no moral or biological issue being involved, we will be spared, praise God, any further discussion of these rules.
Those who (one hopes on the basis of some special competence) are fascinated by the question of whether undergraduates are improved or damaged by fornication can organize private discussion groups or, if married, talk about it with their wives.
Tiger meets bogeymen in Haiti
By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst
It was the tiger against the bogeymen with the United States in the somewhat unwilling role as referee
The tiger lost because the refeere blew the whistle before the game started.
Despite what would seem to be a light-hearted start, this is not a fairy tale, but deals instead with a tragedy that has befallen some 4.5 million people and is one of the grimmest in this hemisphere.
THE BOGEYMEN are the "Tonton Macoute," a 5,000-man force of plainclothes killers upon whom President-for-life Francois Duvalier largely depends for a continuation of his nine-year-old stranglehold in the republic of Haiti.
The tiger is a 49-year-old adventurer named Rololio Masfer-
rer Rojas who at the head of his own private force called Los Tigres once was one of the most feared men in Cuba, a specialist in the elimination of suspected enemies of one-time dictator Fulgencia Batiista. His force of several thousand vigilantes also was said to include experts in such other activities as extortion and thievery.
AGAINST this background, plus a record of having been wounded several times while fighting as a Communist during a switch of allegiance in Spain, Masferer cast himself in the unlikely role of savior for the people of Haiti as a wayside stop on his way to Cuba to take on Fidel Castro.
So well publicized in advance was his planned invasion that U.S. agents had no trouble at all in picking up Masferrer and most
of his little band, seizing a small arsenal of weapons and casting most of the participants in jail.
So the game never really got started.
IN HIS WHITE PALACE in Port au Prince, "Papa Doc" as Duvalier likes to be known, lives in a splendor which contests sharply with the potholed streets, the nearly empty tourist hotels, and the political silence which is indicative of dictatorship and fear.
Tanks, entai aircraft guns and some 1,500 soldiers surround a palace where a pistol seldom is out of reach of Papa Doc's hand.
A Duvallier banner proclaims:
"I am the new Haiti. To went to destroy me is to destroy Haiti itself."
Duvalier has survived other attempts at overthrow but his ultimate fall is not considered so much if as when. Then the question will be whether a new dictator will be even worse or if total chaos will be the rule.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
NAW, IT'S TO KEEP US FROM SNEAKN' OUT — HE GIVES A REAL LOUSY LECTURE!
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