Word: concerned
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...Allegra M. Richards ’09, who is also comping FM.FIGHTING TO BE HEARDFaced with dual defeats, reform activists of the seventies made another attempt to revive the issue with a poll of the student body in 1976. A student organization called the Educational Resource Group distributed questionnaires concerning calendar reform to approximately 250 students. The poll showed approximately 60 percent of students in favor of the reform, according to an April 1976 Crimson article entitled, “Students Upset With Calendar, Survey Shows.” While the poll was ultimately ignored by university administrators, the tactic...
...disciplines,” but rather a preparation for “civic engagement,” an understanding of “traditions of art, ideas, and values,” an ability to “respond critically and constructively to change,” and a concern for “ethical dimensions.” But when faced with examination by the Faculty, the proposal could not sustain a uniting philosophy broad enough to satisfy the parochial concerns of each department without becoming so vague as to be effectively meaningless. The Faculty’s recent...
...desire—to pursue studies in unknown or challenging areas is fundamental to creating the broad and inquisitive perspective necessary for genuine scholarship. Indeed, this is the goal of a liberal arts education, “an education conducted in a spirit of free inquiry undertaken without concern for topical relevance or vocational utility,” as the Task Force on General Education wrote...
...That, perhaps, is the real cause for concern - how deeply the nationalization trend affects the quantity of oil that not only Venezuela but other countries can export, and hence the price we pay for it. The lack of new investment in Mexico's oil fields, for example, has led to some of that nation's steepest production drops ever. The drilling ventures Chavez expropriated today involve tar-like heavy crude in Venezuela's Orinoco belt - perhaps enough to add some 300 billion barrels to the country's reserves, which would move it ahead of Saudi Arabia. But to make that...
...largely symbolic role, but he wields important veto power. With Gul as President, and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) a comfortable majority in parliament, secular Turks fear "it would be the beginning of the end for Turkey as we know it," says commentator Metin Munir. Their concern is that the AKP harbors a secret Islamist agenda, and that without the appropriate checks on their power, they will seek to adopt Sharia-based laws...