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Throughout the months-long Powell debate, campus liberals have remained strangely silent. Instead of trying to rally around the issue, blanket liberal groups like the College Democrats have placed the burden of protest on smaller special-interest groups such as the BGLSA...
Most embarrassing moment: Freshman year, on the very first night, my roommate locked himself out of our room in Canaday and slept in the bathroom using a shower curtain as a blanket. He was running around in his underwear outside trying to get us to open the door but I had earplugs in and my other roommate thought he was dreaming...
Police arrived at a drab cinder-block real-estate office to find Mansur dressed in slippers and wrapped in a white-knit blanket; he was slumped in an easy chair with the telltale mask strapped to his face. A string tied to the middle finger of his left hand was connected to a clip on the tubes running from two cylinders labeled CARBON MONOXIDE. The body was gaunt, the skin yellow-green. For the past few months, Mansur had been too sick to drive and carried a morphine pump around with him to combat the pain. "He was in hell...
Could I, as a Black man, discount everything Thomas Jefferson ever accomplished because he owned slaves? Of course not. That type of blanket dismissal would prevent me from appreciating one of the greatest figures in history. It is no more accurate to call Powell a propagator of "anti-humanist rhetoric" than it is to call Jefferson nothing more than a famous slaveowner...
...laudable ideal but the preaching of untruths and intolerance remains detestable. Dr. Muhammad's talk had little to do with academic discourse. Not only did he insult Black students and faculty as "Uncle Toms," he similarly offended every Muslim when, as a Muslim, he called whites "liars." Such blanket invective has no place in true intellectual discussion...