Correspondence
Correspondence Trimming the VAT Short Hills, N.J. To the Editors: The March 28th. issue contains many stimulating articles. Joseph 0' Donoghue's analysis of the IRS's income tax operations is...
...During the months of sun, as well as during the winter, there seems to be more than ample time for "going to concerts and plays, extended conversation...
...ALFRED McCLUNG LEE Calling Lord Carrington Staten Island, N.Y...
...It represents a type of hidden taxation that would further shift the burden of government onto those with smaller incomes...
...While the North American society, as it steps into the eighties, cannot embrace the liberal education of Victorian England, it is hoped that Cameron's ideas will strengthen the view that "a knowledge of literature...
...Such knowledge, as stated, is indeed fundamental to the health of this society which has been weakened in recent years by the new hybrid subject Social Studies, the widespread encouragement of social service activities during school hours at the expense of serious study, and the ceaseless proliferation of mini-courses in judo, scuba-diving and frisbee-throwing...
...I do not share his enthusiasm for the Value Added Tax (VAT...
...This would guarantee the rights of all parties, and end the partition of the country, which is the root cause of the trouble...
...205...
...Peace in Northern Ireland, in Northern terms, would mean a reestablishment of a Stormont government...
...Cameron's suggestion that tutorials in small groups replace lectures in large classes may become a reality in spite of policies, as enrollments decline in mar y liberal arts colleges during the coming decade...
...This fact (not underlined by Cameron) should provide one of the criteria for all core-curricula revisions...
...Joseph 0' Donoghue's analysis of the IRS's income tax operations is most perceptive...
...For many students, their undergraduate years are simply a base for further college work...
...The suggestion that no grades be (Continued on Page 319) Commonweal: 290 Correspondence (Continued from page 290) awarded during the three initial years of college, poses serious problems...
...After the really remarkable job the team of of Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, and Prime Minister Thatcher has done in Rhodesia, it is probable it could reach agreement between the two parts of Ireland, and bring peace to that troubled country...
...To the Editors: Michael McDowell, in his article, "Post-Nobel Decline" [Mar...
...None of these cachets has left that area, but , at least now, it does not have government supporting these qualities...
...28], analyzes the lack of success of the Peace Movement in Northern Ireland...
...2. Corrigan, Williams, and McKeown first lost the support of Northern Irish Roman Catholics because of the manner in which they accepted and apparently (for a time) deserved the adulation of the British establishment and press...
...There seems to be some in .onsistency in declaring all lectures er irely voluntary, but expecting student, to attend tutorials and seminars...
...an acquaintance with some of the classics of philosophy . . . be nourished as the core of a curriculum in the liberal arts" (p...
...From my experience, I think that today's undergraduates have sufficient time for leisure...
...EDWARD J. SOMMER Associate Professor, School of Education Gonzaga University...
...The summer break gets longer as students find themselves in need of earning more and more to meet tuition fees...
...Whether it is willing to undertake this is a test of its good-will...
...The university year shrinks each decade, in some institutions, each two or three years...
...I have some reservations, however, about Cameron's suggestions on how to teach his curriculum...
...The undergraduate course should provide students with a firm basis for adult life and later study—something that many undergraduate liberal arts courses fail to do...
...a sense of history...
...I wish that he had wound up his treatment only with recommendations as to how the income tax could be made operative...
...Only Britain can do this...
...When later McKeown tried to show some sympathy for brutalized prisoners, his credibility with the Catholics had been destroyed...
...11], was timely and reassuring...
...It would allow the North to have more control of its own affairs than it has now under British rule...
...The vast majority of students need some signs of their progress and class standing, for their psychological health, if for no other reason...
...We would see a return of the prejudice, inequality, discrimination, and injustice, which have been the hallmark of that government from its beginning...
...Somtething more than charm and interest needs to be established to guarantee an audience at lectures: the possibility that what is lectured on might be asked in oral or written examinations...
...With regard to McDowell's piece on Northern Ireland, two corrections should have been made: 1. The person driving the car that killed the three Maguire children was not involved in a "shoot-out...
...But he does not give the real reason for the decline, i.e., that it will not resolve the fundamental cause of the Northern Ireland problem, which is the partition of the country, and the failure of the majority to give full civil and human rights to the Irish minority...
...The solution to the Irish situation lies, not in the instauration of another Stormont government, but in permanently settling the Irish problem by unifying the country on a federated basis, with autonomy of local government for each of the two parts, with a central government for defense, foreign affairs, and finance...
...The case for exams Spokane, Wash...
...Even at Oxford in the days of Newman, the University held Moderations some terms before candidates sat for their Final Schools...
...He was unarmed and was shot on suspicion...
...To the Editors: J. M. Cameron's, "The Idea of a Liberal Education" [Apr...
...It is because the London government has felt it cannot trust Stormont to run the affairs of that province equitably that it has taken over direct control from Westminster...
...There is wisdom in advocating the return of a final examination that demands a personal synthesis of one's years of reading and study, but there is some imprudence in placing too much importance on this examination, as again Newman learned when he fared badly in his Greats...
...The Irish government in the Republic is most anxious to meet with representatives of the British government, and Northern Ireland, to discuss these matters, and to settle differences, so that a beaceful determination of this issue can be finally arrived at, and the turmoil ended...
Vol. 107 • May 1980 • No. 10
