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...others seem to feel that the University's financial commitment to the Foundation should be stronger. Gomes, who now chairs the Foundation's Faculty Committee, says an "extraordinary effort is necessary" to raise outside funds, because the traditionally generous alumni sources may not give great amounts to promote an abstract cause like race relations, and because of the scarcity and relative youth of Third World alumni. "But clearly the University did not buy that argument," Gomes says, adding, "I know that one of the important issues was that it generate income--that it not need Lesley become a line...
Particularly when compared to the demands for a concrete presence like a Third World Center, many students feel that an abstract concept like the Foundation has a lot to prove. Many students say that the Third World Center was the crucial issue, and once that was denied, it was not very important what concession they made instead. "A lot of students see it as just a way of appeasing them." Akili Tyson '83, who worked for a Third World Center, says, "Among students who worked hard to get a Third World center there is a real feeling of betrayal." Williams...
Granted these questions are abstract ones, with no easy answers. But aside from a simplistic nine-page afterward. Mitchell's only efforts to resolve these enigmas of social responsibility are the graphic, tepid biographies of his heroes. With seven vivid examples of "mavericks who would not be silenced," the author whimpers through his point by implicit example. Unfortunately, the examples Mitchell chooses are banal and consequently they ring hollow. For example...
...revised test will eliminate a section of multiple choice grammar and syntax problems, replacing it with a 30-minute essay that will not be scored by the testing service but instead sent directly to colleges. In addition, a math section will be replaced by an abstract reasoning section that will better represent the type of skill a law student would have to possess, Barher said...
...Review's decision to couch its new plan in abstractions, then, led to its success. It's much easier to make abstract decisions without specific costs than to make concrete decisions with concrete costs. The danger is that under conservative leadership, the Review's abstractions could prove meaningless wording changes...