Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best argument for this bill is that apathy--the failure to vote--should not kill a bill," said Council treasurer Beth A. Stewart...
...death penalty deters crime." According to this argument, criminals who would otherwise commit atrocious murders would refrain from such action out of fear of being put to death by the government. The electric chair, according to many death penalty proponents, will cast a long shadow of intimidation upon potential murderers...
...demonstrated in this piece. The following are only a few examples. Adair incorrectly identifies the author of the other article mentioned no less than three times. Adair does not use a single quotation to support her accusations of bigotry. The one quotation she does use in a secondary argument appears in 25 point font in the middle of my article in The Salient. As an English concentrator, Adair should understand when I write that she fails to use the techniques of close reading when constructing her slanderous arguments. --Naomi Schaefer '98, Editor-in-Chief, The Harvard Salient
Essentially, Lewis' argument is this: if a student is being followed by another (a peer, for example), universal key-card access will only serve to increase the risk of intrusion since the "stalker" can just whip out his universal access ID card. The problem with this argument? If a student is being stalked, there is no doubt that his or her being indoors is safer than being out; therefore, if universal key-card access were in place, the possible victim could escape indoors. There, he or she could reach out for help...
...everyone is in a lather. World-history professor Dan Sipe uses Keene's work in discussing everything from economics to philosophy. As in, What is art? (It was Sipe's musings that prompted drawing professor Steve Sherman to call him a gasbag, at which point the argument degenerated into obscenities.) Art-history student Heather Nash, a Keene fan, says, "I've never seen an exhibit here that produced this much enthusiasm." She's talking about the visitors--some of them doing their holiday shopping--who wait for the gallery to open each day. Darren Check, a law student at Temple...