Word: concerned
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...issue of whether to invest in firms operating in South Africa offers the ultimate example of the difficulties of trying to demonstrate a serious concern for moral standards. The problems of South Africa are far too tragic and inflammatory to escape bitter controversy, whatever a university decides to do. Student activists will claim that officials who oppose total divestment are insensitive to the injustices of apartheid, while conservative critics insist that selling stock is only an empty and expensive gesture to appease irresponsible radicals. In this atmosphere, divestment can easily acquire such emotional, symbolic importance that is difficult to examine...
...make these values the foundation for a serious program to help students develop a strong set of moral standards. Indeed, the failure to do so threatens to convey a message that neither these values nor the effort to live up to them are of much importance or much common concern. This message is not only unworthy of the academy; it is likely in the atmosphere of a university to leave students morally confused and less able to acquire ethical convictions of their...
Despite the importance of moral development to the individual student and the society, one cannot say that higher education has demonstrated a deep concern for the problem. Some efforts are being made on every campus, and a number of religious institution and small independent colleges actually devote much time and energy to the task. More often, however, and especially in large universities, the subject is not treated as a serious responsibility worthy of sustained discussion with determined action by the faculty and administration...
...prey on the basest of assumptions about Arabs in general, and Palestinians in particular. Simply because we bring attention to Israel's political and human rights violations in the occupied territories does not mean we merit the titles of extremists, anti-Americans sensationalists, or hate-filled people. We are concerned human beings with legitimate grievances which we wish to express, just as Hillel expresses concern over Soviet Jewry, just as the South African Solidarity Committee expresses concern about apartheid...
...many of Swaggart's followers, though, the larger concern is what harm the past year of Gospelgate will do to his remarkable denomination. "We are ready to put this matter behind us," states the group's weary leader, G. Raymond Carlson. Understandably so. The double-barreled embarrassment involving Bakker and Swaggart, the Assemblies' two most visible evangelists, has unforgettably tarnished preparations for the denomination's 75th anniversary next year. But so far the damage has been controllable, testimony to the extraordinary vigor of the Assemblies...