Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That happy atmosphere runs into some rough going at times, though. Last October saw a number of residents voice concern about a "lack of security" in what the University has long considered a high crime area. The University's long-standing contention that the area near Harvard and Ware Streets is unsafe for women students--which until this year served as an excuse for keeping the Union Dorms single-sex--prompted over 60 students to sign a petition requesting the installation of iron bars on the buildings first floor windows...
...students obviously were not that upset, however, because their concern faded soon after the University's refusal on the grounds that window bars would block emergency fire exists. Life returned to normal "after we realized there aren't a bunch of murderers and rapists hanging around under the windows," says Raymond, a first-floor resident who signed the petition. In fact, University police statistics indicate the area does not have an unusually high crime rate, and there have been no incidents similar to last year's mugging of two Pennypacker residents weaving their way home after a night at Father...
...theoretical model of an ideal world that Ergo presents to its readers--a world where social concern and moral action come naturally--has yet to appear on earth. But to a group of dedicated individualists at MIT, that goal is tangible and worth working and publishing...
...federal funds, universities, like other institutions, have to be subject to federal regulation where it's necessary to protect the public interest. I think we would also recognize that most of the problems that have given rise to federal intervention over the last ten years are legitimate problems. Our concern is much more with the manner in which the federal regulations have been conceived and implemented. We're concerned about the conflicts and ambiguities in many of the regulations that confront us, with the enormous and in some cases unnecessary volume of paperwork that these regulations entail... So we would...
...explicit socialism distinguishes In These Times from the politics of numerous hip-capitalist papers like the Village Voice, or the Real Paper. And its low-key style makes its stated concern with democracy more credible than leftist papers whose strident rhetoric gives anti-capitalism an authoritarian tenor...