Word: belief
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...college roommate Michael H. Brown ’83, Khazei founded the organization in 1988 in Boston. Now in its 20th year, City Year is a member of AmeriCorps and has programs in 17 cities around the country. The organization was built, according to its Web site, on the belief that “one person can make a difference, and with the vision that one day service will be a common expectation.” “I hope all of you will decide to be active in politics and public service,” Khazei said...
...altogether bad idea. Though unconventional, it expands student choice in living situations, and if living with roommates of different genders improves a student’s quality of life, then by all means, students should be allowed to do so. We depart from the Staff, however, in their belief that transgender students should receive priority for gender-neutral housing. The problem of insufficient gender-neutral housing will not be alleviated by prioritizing the interests of transgender students over the rest of the student body. Apart from the fact that doing so would be unfair—transgender students, after...
...Holy Land, it's inevitable that religious belief, as well as anger, would give hip-hop a special twist. A 30-year-old Miami native who recently moved to Israel, Jew Da Maccabi found rap before religion, but he's now putting his religion into his rap. He dons the black garb and practices the habits of an ultra-orthodox Jew, with a few hip-hop accessories such as a Yankees baseball cap instead of a broad-brimmed black hat. "After I became religious, I remembered what my rabbi said: 'Take what you did before, and flip it to holiness...
...reason' are parallel and equivalent ways of knowing," he wrote in the Harvard Crimson. "But universities are about reason, pure and simple." Though 71% of incoming students say they attend religious services and many already elect to study religion, the committee gave in, ultimately substituting a "culture and belief" requirement. It turned out to be more practical...
...Earth creationism,” the theory that that the planet is only as old as Eden. While it may appear inherently intellectually dissonant to work within the strictures of science, which holds that the Earth is millions of years old, during the day, yet privately ascribe to a belief that holds that the Earth is at most 10,000 years old, it is a paradigm that has seemed to work in the modern University: As long as the science that the creationist produces is sound, his views are irrelevant. But in the current scientific-political climate, controversy has reared...