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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has begun to assert himself as race czar as part of the College's efforts to improve campus race relations. In the process, he has created a burgeoning bureaucracy within the College administration, which some call ungainly. Is this an effective structure or is there...
...children will not only charge us with appeasement; they will also assert we abandoned part of Europe--and part of the world's future--to avoidable tragedy...
...order to affirm family solidarity with his mother and stepfather, Roger Clinton. In 1975, when Bill Clinton got married, his new wife chose to keep the name Hillary Rodham. But five years later, Clinton was defeated in a run for re-election as Arkansas Governor, at which point, to assert a more conventional family image, Hillary Rodham started calling herself Hillary Clinton. But she was not exactly taking Bill's name either, since "Clinton" had not originally been Bill's. Bill was once removed from his own birth name, so now Hillary was, in a sense, twice removed...
...read Mr. Asante's stuff, all this stuff about the Greeks learning philosophy from Africa. I think that that philosophy is worthless. There's been a movement in the twentieth century to assert that a lot of Greek notions are vague and have no empirical basis, so even if the Greeks did study in Africa, so what? These are not the most pressing things that face...
...offers as its rationale the fact that AIDS and other such diseases are not transmitted by casual contact the way tuberculosis is. In order to assert this, however, the department must implicitly define casual contact in a narrow and unrealistic way that is more appropriate to describe the situation of visitors than of proposed long-term residents...