Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While both Mason and McDonagh have turned to more academic examinations of the abortion debate, McDowell has participated in grassroots activism.
Mason's academic work centers less around the legalistic debates, and more on the dangers of increasingly militant tactics of abortion opponents.
The speakers viewed their roles as supporters of abortion rights through vastly different lenses, ranging from the academic world to the front lines of activism.
Selective attendance is a slippery slope, and one absence makes the next one all the easier. I began to believe that my time, whether it was spent sleeping or eating (or at The Crimson), was more important than going to class. Some semesters I didn't even bother buying notebooks...
While I hope Harvard College never adopts an attendance policy, I have begun, albeit only recently, to see the merits of classroom attendance. There are some things that can't be learned very well from a book, concepts that require explanation and demonstration. Section discussion can, at times, be enlightening...