Word: argumentive
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...clear that the Coop would stop hounding professors as long as it continues to carry textbooks, but the CUE will have to establish its own mechanism to obtain ISBN numbers from professors in a timely manner. This is part of organizing a Harvard textbook database, and not an argument against it. As we have argued before on this page, students should have open access to information about their textbooks. Because books are often cheaper from vendors other than the Coop, it is especially important that students, who are often on a tight budget, be given as much opportunity as possible...
...Matory’s motion is really a specific criticism regarding a controversial issue veiled by an appeal to the principle of free speech in general. As law professor Alan M. Dershowitz argued, Matory “is misusing freedom of speech and academic freedom to make an ideological argument.” Matory disingenuously couched his unpopular claim within a meaningless statement in favor of an ideal that virtually all faculty members would support. This is not the way that dialogue on this, or any other issue, should proceed at Harvard. Instead of dressing his argument...
...discussion with Columbia administrators, collective student pressure upon the Committee on the Core Curriculum (upon which three current undergraduates sit), even sit-ins and picket lines would seem to be more appropriate forms of encouraging progress. Especially in the forum of a higher educational institution, discourse and weight of argument should be relied on to advocate and cajole. Desperation tactics such as the hunger strike should only be resorted to in the direst of circumstances. And even then, protesters risk sensationalism overshadowing their intended message. The multifarious nature of the strike’s inciting incidents seems to belie another...
...McCain's unwillingness to make the "anyone but Hillary" argument endangers one of the most substantial rationales he makes for his candidacy: the idea that he, alone among the Republicans, can beat Clinton in the general election. But McCain firmly believes he can accomplish that without engaging in the kind of politicking that was on display, say, between the Clinton and Barack Obama camps this past weekend...
...Tutu’s attempt to explain the current situation in the Middle East in terms of absolute good and evil. “His framework is a very different one,” said Yinliang He ’08. “It’s beyond argument and counterargument. It’s theologically based.” Outside the Loeb, a handful of protesters held signs denouncing Tutu and accused him of being “an imperialist.” Tutu is here for the two-day conference of Weatherhead Center alumni fellows called...