Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Make no mistake about HUCTW. We aim to win at the negotiating table because we literally cannot afford to lose. And we will win as long as we share in a common purpose and common determination to achieve our goals...
...admissions policies have evolved over the past several decades under the guidance of the Standing Committee on Admissions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. For many years we have recognized that a multiplicity of talents is essential to an invigorating learning environment. Even our top priority, academic talent, cannot be precisely measured by any single criterion such as test scores. Each application receives extensive individual evaluation, often by four or more admissions officers and teaching faculty...
Different people learn in different ways. Some minds cannot be inspired in a sterile classroom and cannot learn from lecture or rote memorization. Some people can be better educated through an active process, whether it is an intense discussion, dramtization or hands-on experience...
Many people are excluded from the system of higher education because of economic considerations. While some simply cannot afford an education, many find that the type of education they can afford does not justify the cost and sacrifice to themselves and their family. Others who feel uninspired by the structure of formal schooling may choose not to continue their education, feeling that they would gain no intellectual benefit from it. Since college education is increasingly becoming a pre-professional venture, those who decline the option are increasingly being forced into undesirable levels of a economically stratified society...
...court cannot be an umpire, deciding dispassionately on issues of law. While there are grains of truth in this perception, decisions such as the Yonkers case, which require the ongoing participation of a federal judge to ensure the equal rights of an entire class of citizens, reveal a judicial system which is coming into its own, not as an umpire, but as a relief pitcher for democracy...