Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waggers' list of objections reads like a ludicrous laundry list. The governor is this, the governor isn't that, all thrown against the backdrop of the suggestion of impropriety by the committee chairman. Their charges against the student are unsupported by any facts and use circumstantial evidence to condemn him for commiting the apparently heinous crime of supporting Dukakis for governor (as The Crimson and almost everybody outside of the John Birch Society did) and then using his connection to try to get that prominent American to favor the senior class with an address in June...
While these arguments are convincing, the critics who make them must also condemn other fields with limited foci in order to remain consistent. Their views apply to the better-established field of Afro-American Studies, as well as to other concentrations such as Sociology, Urban Studies, Soviet Studies, Asian Studies, and American History...
...judge Wolfe as a product, a victim, of the rural Southern environment that bred such beliefs? Or are we to judge and condemn his standards by our own? Donald succeeds in bridging a gap between these two extreme forms of interpretation. His biography of this most autobiographical of authors never excuses Wolfe's social immaturity, but it fights to prevent Wolfe himself from fading into literary exile...
...upperclass students, who have found their own niches, can do to help freshmen explore and situate themselves here. So while we sympathize with Masters' frustration, we believe that the program can grow and improve by taking it seriously--and we do not think her frustration constitutes sufficient ground to condemn a Yard full of active and committed prefects or the program which places them there. Member, Prefect Steering Committe
Siracuse also said he thought the people at the dinner he was attending when he received the strip-a-gram enjoyed themselves. "The whole thing was very funny. It was hilarious, everyone had a good laugh. It's not something I feel bad about. I certainly don't condemn my roommates for doing it," he said...