Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were not treading water," Berry said of the team response to the problem. He stressed that drug use was a serious concern that had to be addressed, but was not a major problem...
...Almost everything that final clubs stand for runs counter to the foundations and purpose of Harvard University. The clubs stand for bigotry over plurality, secrecy over openness, hedonism over moderation and selfishness over community concern. The clubs divide the community, separating a group which perceives itself as a social elite from the vast majority of their fellow undergraduates...
...instant case, it is difficult to see that any such concern has entered Harvard's calculus. Its authorities must believe that freedom of association is a good. They clearly believe that equal opportunity is a good. To impose membership rules on the Final Clubs is to sacrifice the former. Not to impose them is to sacrifice the latter. But (pace Clubbies) the worth of the opportunity lost to those discriminated against doesn't come close to outweighing the value--to all who would be free--of letting the Clubs do as they will...
...vents to "our" bum. This is to me a disgusting thought. Leverett students should not be interested in finding an unfortunate human being to patronize as their pet. This man is not our pet; he should be treated to proper care in a proper shelter. "Concerned" students who want him to stay on a hot air vent are misplacing their concern. The Leverett House vents are not--nor were they ever meant to be--proper shelters, and students should not encourage other human beings to live there...
...know the reasoning for the covers--and the concern for security is a legitimate one. What is morally abhorrent is that the covers went up at all--on the coldest night of the year, with no warning to the men who used those worm places, or to Leverett students. It took more conscious effort and cost to cover those grates than to simply leave them open. It is evidence of a desire for simple solutions; to connect those men to a rash of thefts in Leverett simply perpetuates a myth about the homeless. If there were complaints, there should have...