Word: accepting
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...Garuda says that with the stringent requirements one must adhere to in order to become an initiated devotee, a quick hop in and out of ISKCON is impossible. Garuda believes his rejection by the United Ministries is a "possible case of religious prejudice." He believes many people do not accept ISKCON because they identify it as being similar to new religions like Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and the New Light Movement...
According to Agrani, ISKCON will be universally accepted when all the devotees become experts in presenting Krishna consciousness and are able to convince people they are free from material or personal motivations. He says, "Today people are afraid and accustomed to being cheated. When we become pure enough to convince them we are spiritual servants of God, people will accept...
...recommends a much more rigid program with ten specific areas in all. This is unacceptable: although we recognize the inevitability of some type of Gen Ed revisions, ten areas constitute an unnecessarily excessive infringement on students' freedom of choice. Indeed, most members of the Harvard community were prepared to accept the verdict of the Faculty subcommittees. In light of the unexpectedly stringent requirements, however, many must now reconsider whether or not the Faculty is going too far. The idea of some required courses in a loose framework, as embodied by the Gen Ed principle, is desirable. But in terms...
...Faculty will most likely accept some form of the Core proposal. But the current proposal, which may soon be the new system, is sadly out of tune with student needs. Students and faculty should work quickly to stop the current proposal and help create a viable alternative within the core framework--not out of contempt for its creators, but out of objections to their methods and a serious concern for a better undergraduate education at Harvard...
...Faculty-appointed committees that developed the core report took the original suggestion of five areas of study, tentatively advanced by a subcommittee last spring, and stretched it to ten. In the opinion of many student and faculty members, these requirements are excessive. One might accept five areas for the sake of pragmatism, but ten are too Draconian to tolerate...