Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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“I BELIEVE THERE IS NO ROOM IN THIS WORLD FOR RACISM OF ANY COLOR . . “Except perhaps in Racist and Anti-Semetic Miami Country Clubs. But I do BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY . .

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DATION? One of the greatest attractions of a small school is the family-like at¬ mosphere that permeates campus life and academics. Students come to Tufts, rather than to an Ohio State or a Cornell, because of the accessibility of professors and administrators, and the compassion and caring that are said to be grounded in University policy. Tufts has forsaken many of these traits. While faculty members are accessible, school policy is too often estranged from the interaction between administration and undergraduates, that should characterize a small university. A small school that preaches peace and light should not make rules so inflexible that freshmen are thrown out of university housing for non-malicious forget¬ fulness. Such a school would not react to ignorant racism with non¬ productive and grossly hypocritical punishments. Can we be proud of our “’quaint little school” when it defiantly displaces Chinatown residents, in¬ vests in South African apartheid, accepts money from fascist dictators, holds fundraisers in an anti-semitic racist country club, and tells our parents that their 21 year old children have serious drinking problems? We are reacting to a sense of disappointment. We were attracted to Tufts by a sense of promise in 1978. A magic was in the air; it seemed that Tufts had the “right stuff to make our college years memorable and satisfying. But four years have hardened our vision of the university. The promise remains; the magic has been elusive. The Mayer administration has failed to respond to the needs of undergraduate students: the people whose tuition has been used to help finance graduate school expansion and inefficiency. The goal of building a strong university for the future does not justify shortchanging the students of the present. It is ironic that the pillars of Ballou Hall are hollow, for they are a symbol of the University’s failures. Real pillars are solid to the core and emanate strength and respectability. As casual observers four years ago we saw Tufts as a pillar of strength. But after four years of frustrations we realize that the university’s appearance is deceiving: The Class of 1982 has had a college experience tainted by Administrative oversights. The promise of John Holmes’ dream remains, but the light on the hill has begun to flicker. Don’t let another four years pass without demanding that the dream become reality.

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“Except maybe for the peo¬ ple OF THE PHILLIPINES. BUT I REALLY FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT PRESERVING FREEDOM OF CHOICE . . “Except regarding the EVICTED RESIDENTS OF Chinatown. But I’ve always BEEN A FIRM . .