Word: affective
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...about being a Crimson columnist?” There are so many benefits to the position that I don’t even know where to begin. I relish the opportunity to use Harvard’s premier media outlet to express my strong opinions about controversial topics that affect the very core of our University and even the world at large, like how chicken parmigiana should be served more often than biweekly. I love the power to stimulate intellectual debate over some of the world’s most perplexing issues. It fills my heart with glee when...
Yale’s Executive Committee only formally convenes for a hearing under two conditions: when the student being reviewed does not agree that the charge is valid or in cases—such as sexual assault—that affect the entire community...
...month that he is considering undertaking a review of the Ad Board’s procedures next fall and that students may serve on the committee that will carry out the review. Students present last night also said that undergraduates should have formal input into contract decisions that directly affect them. This week, the College announced that it had taken out a contract with Collegeboxes, the storage and shipping company that drew complaints from students last year. College administrators said the company had reformed its operations, but undergraduates have expressed skepticism about using Collegeboxes again. Students attending last night?...
...really irrational that we are willing to tolerate self-deprecating racial humor but not Don Imus? Race doesn’t determine intelligence or character, and it shouldn’t affect a person’s opportunities in life, but this does not mean it can’t alter the offensiveness of speech or writing. Race may be an artificial construct, but so is racist language. The very nature of language dictates that offensiveness is dependent on identity...
...narrowed by ideological blinders—do not attempt to fit every political event into a predetermined theoretical framework. When considering issues—such as partial-birth abortion—only ideologues are content to dispense with the facts, for, as Rousseau famously summarized, they do not affect the question...