Word: condemnable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After an eight-month study, an Army commission has proposed that the wording of the code be changed to "nor tolerate such acts by other cadets." The aim is still to condemn the foul deed, but now also to keep a more open mind toward the individual who committed it. This would give the cadet honor boards greater leeway in deciding punishment and thus enable an offender to remain at the Point with a chance to prove himself. Although the academy superintendent has long had less dire options, expulsion has been the usual fate...
Divinity School Dean Ronald Thiemann was unavailable for comment, but Martin says that the dean's office investigated the incident and determined that there was no administrative involvement. But the dean thought the incident was important enough for him to condemn the act in a letter to the entire Divinity School community...
...Their cutting wit reveals them to be the original ironic generation--unlike their 1980s counterparts, their irony is not a hip pose but a weapon of self-defense. The tribe is no group of saints--its members can be as sexist, cowardly and mean-spirited as the elders they condemn--which makes them that much more human and their quest for values that much more necessary...
...fifth resolution would condemn the military'sdiscrimination, but would not make ROTC's returncontingent upon its change
...such allegations do more than illegitimately condemn Jackson; they also undermine the importance of the Holocaust. Himmelfarb, for example, was willing to invoke the slaughter of six million Jews to improve the prospects for his political party. I believe others use Holocaust imagery against Jackson to vent racist attitudes. If this continues, how can we avoid the Holocaust becoming a political football...