Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safe to say that most students at Harvard deplore the apartheid policy of South African, and I applaud those who engage in peaceful protest against that policy. It is a grave mistake, however, to label the two most recent protests as peaceful there have been allegations that the police at the Conservative Club meeting used executive force to clear a way for the diplomat as he as like Lowell Houses I consider these allegations to come from a reliable source I was not however, present, and so will not comment on that them I will comment on that part...
Those who participate in violent protest represent only a small fraction of Harvard students, although they receive most of the publicity. As individuals, I like many of them; as activists willing to sacrifice time and energy, I applaud them. Their violence, however, and their apparently ill considered positions, I deplore. David A. Rabson...
...applaud the fact that one of the first decisions made by Michael Spence, new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), was to commission a group of faculty members to reevaluate the Graduate School (GSAS). The result of the Strauch Committee's several months' work has recently been made public. Although their suggestions include issues as provocative as reallocation of university funds (increasing reorganizing the administration, little discussion has been generated thus far. As graduate students who reported to the Strauch Committee, we lament this and hope that the report will be more widely read and openly debated...
...appeal of drugs, beyond the immediate physical sensation, is that they give one a license to be irresponsible. One is part of a spectacle, and it is permitted to break things, to scream, and to say "I love you" without consequence. When we attend a spectacular divestment rally and applaud the speakers who bash Harvard and Derek Bok the hardest, we aren't being irresponsible, rather the reverse. It is only when we go home and turn to more pressing concerns that we become irresponsible, because we go back to being that very Harvard we were bashing a few hours...
...third caller of the evening called again. He asked me it I stuttered and apologized for his rudeness. He said he felt terribly embarrassed to look courage to make that second call; I applaud his thought and effort. Frankly, it made my evening--I don't get many apologies. Although I would love not to get harassed on the phone quite so often, my thought is for the other two callers. Did they know what they were doing? Probably not. Would they feel embarrassed if they had? Probably. There would have been no need to feel embarrassed if these three...