Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argument against the proposal, raised by Student Affairs Committee Chair Randall A. Fine '96, is that direct elections will not succeed in increasing student interest in the council. Fine notes that at the University of Kentucky, which has popular elections for student government officers, only 10 percent of the student body votes...
...months, affirmative action has been brought under harsh attack, not only from those conservatives who have been crusading against affirmative action since its inception, but increasingly from the mainstream American public. As Mansfield noted, "the policies of affirmative action are suddenly coming into question in a remarkable way." The argument against affirmative action focuses on the claim that affirmative action is no more than a type of reverse racism. In an amazingly ironic twist, the system that was established to overcome the effects of group generalizations now more than ever looks at people solely as members of some larger ethnic...
...argument that houses will lose their identifying characteristics because of randomization lacks any logical foundation. Each year, even in largely randomized houses, longstanding traditions such as theatricals, music societies, dances and intramurals attract new classes of interested sophomores. With such large and inevitably diverse house populations, randomization could not possibly threaten firmly-grounded cultural and social institutions...
...strongest argument against randomization is that it will not solve the problem that vexes the administration. The self-segregation of minority students in the Quad is a visible phenomenon of peoples' natural tendencies to associate with those with whom they share a common identity, whether as part of an ethnic group, a religious group or an athletic team. This tendency is even more pronounced when the individual finds himself as a minority in an unfamiliar environment. That the problem has worsened in recent years may in fact reflect on the campus' growing diversity that allows minority students to form self...
...these explanations share the premise that the events in the Bible actually took place. A parallel line of argument holds that the Bible is made up simply of legends crafted by the Gospel writers to serve a political agenda in the early days of the church. Modern archaeology has given contemporary scholars a much richer sense of the Galilean world, the social tensions around Jesus and the political challenges his followers encountered after his Crucifixion...