Word: civic
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...woman vaguely associated with Wellesley “boycott sex with Harvard students, faculty, administrators and anyone else vaguely associated with the school until the magazine prints an apology for the article.” The next week, we received a letter from an ad hoc organization of civic-minded MIT students who offered to pick up the slack until that apology was forthcoming...
Members of the School Committee claimed that Turkel and the other Cambridge Civic Association-endorsed members of the Committee arranged for Segat to stay home in order to delay the vote...
Many value public schools for their appreciation of tolerance and diversity, implying that private schools do not impart these civic ideals. In fact, private schools do promote civic virtues and are actually more integrated, diverse and tolerant than government schools. Education expert Jay Greene found that nearly twice as many private school students enjoyed racially mixed friend groups. The Latino National Political Survey found that Latino adults from private schools are much more tolerant overall, whereas those from public schools were significantly more likely to believe that gay activists should be denied political rights like running for office or holding...
...ever even bring up the whole Harvard issue, that’s just something that comes up over time when the first incident happens. It tends to be entirely reactive,” said Robert S. Winters, a longtime Cambridge political observer and a member of the Cambridge Civic Association...
...came knocking on Harvard’s door. The terrorist attack on America and our war against al-Qaeda—both of which have been blamed for the state of the economy—have given heightened esteem and, more importantly, heightened urgency to those performing jobs of civic and public service...