Word: apathyã
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...with all good case studies, it’s best to control for confounding factors. So I decided to examine the views of identical twins on the subject. These twins, having grown up in the same house, same town, and same community, should have similar levels of apathy??even if one goes to Harvard and the other goes to Yale...
...Larson’s Nov. 7 column “Attracted to Apathy?? makes a good point about the gender imbalances in certain clubs and organizations at Harvard. However, I feel called upon to put aside my imputed apathy and/or aphonia in order to disagree with her diagnosis...
Again, this apathy??and the laziness-generated opinions which it tends to produce—is only human nature, and indeed it is hard to imagine its being any other way. But it does have one very important, and not necessarily obvious, implication: when Dean Kirby, the students on the CUE, and the Harvard Faculty make important decisions about the future of academic life here, they should do so based almost entirely on their own instincts, and on however many thoughtful individual responses they receive to their solicitations of student opinion...