Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NOTHING in the public realm can fail, at specific points, to aid or undermine established power. The being of man in the world is only possible through action, which requires the selection of one alternative and the foreclosures of others. One cannot, in all instances, avoid choice; the only hope is to choose responsibility, in light of the largest understanding and the most humane commitment. As the university is rooted in the world, it must, at given moments, choose a public course; the liberal contention that the university refrain from criticism is an expression of "preferential neutralism," a transparently hyprocritical...
Despite its menacing tone, the Kremlin seems anxious to avoid any serious confrontation with the U.S. Instead, it is working for the breakup of the Western Alliance and aiming at the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe. It finds Charles de Gaulle an invaluable if unintentional ally in its endeavor, and is striving to divide the U.S. from its European allies, particularly the Germans. The Russians are also thinking more and more of establishing themselves as a Mediterranean power, an old dream of the Czars that shows how firmly Communism in Russia has become wedded to traditional national interests...
...room for opposing points of view. Similarly, PBL's plans for "anti-commercials" on smoking and the relatively high prices of name-brand aspirin were bound to excite complaints from offended business interests. The problem for PBL staffers who ache to do some muckraking is not how to avoid offending but how to do it fairly and responsibly...
...honors--are little more than polite words for letter grades. The faculty did refuse, however, to set any guidelines for these categories, thereby making cumulative averages or specific class standings meaningless. The move will undoubtedly encourage some students to take more of the difficult courses that they would otherwise avoid...
...University. But those limits were not defined at the time of last week's sit-in. Nor was the University equipped to make a measured, equitable response. Justice may at times be arbitrary, but it presumes at the very least that procedures are folowed which aim to avoid arbitrary results. The Faculty was given to understand that those students placed on probation were on the scene in Mallinckrodt. For some students, that was not the case...