Word: assertation
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...true at Columbia, where the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department is notably prejudiced, and where the establishment of the Edward Said Chair of Arab Studies was steeped in allegations of everything from furtive donors to unscholarly candidates to unfair methods. This is not to assert the principle that professors should not be activists, but to lament a situation where an entire department falls into the uniformity of a similar worldview. For then students lose out from not being exposed to a proper diversity of perspectives. Columbia has been nicknamed the “Bir-Zeit...
...Nikki—who would like to assert to FM editors that she has turned her cab light on in the past...
...identity.” But the Institute’s failure to inspire wide scale minority involvement clearly calls for a new strategy. The most recent initiative to establish ties with several black student groups, for example, will not get off the ground if the IOP continues to assert full control over its old “identity.” Fulfilling such a role need not diminish the IOP’s own priorities and programs; it would merely expand its range...
...blocking group—within a semester. Sure, we instruct them to enjoy their current communities and not worry about it, but really. Of course they’re going to spend half the semester strategizing for allies—it’s their only chance to assert control over their future communities at the College, as their frosh living community is frittered away at the end of freshman year. This is too much unhealthy pressure from the College’s administration, and they should know better. Discombobulated first-years don’t have the mental chops...
...Prescriber information on the SSRIs in America contains an extraordinary sentence missing from the versions seen by Australian doctors - extraordinary in the context of a debate in which advocates of the drugs assert that depressed people who aren't treated are at heightened risk of contemplating and attempting suicide. "The average risk of such events in patients receiving antidepressants was 4%," the U.S. warning reads, "twice the placebo risk of 2%." In other words, drugs meant to stop depressed people from getting even more depressed or killing themselves may double their chances of doing just that. For the skeptics, that...