Word: confrontational
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...Harvard, but cordoning women off into a room is not going to solve the problem. For there to truly be “safe space” at Harvard and beyond, women have to be willing to engage the enemy. FemSex does not offer one seminar on how to confront gender stereotypes in the real world: it is only interested in separating women into these silly slumber party seminars...
Indeed, on the same day Steinmeier was speaking in Munich, Barack Obama was launching his presidential campaign in Springfield, Ill. His speech had two paragraphs on foreign policy. In the first, Obama acknowledged the importance of a strong military in the key task of this generation--to "confront" and "track down" terrorists. In the second, he urged that "we bring an end to this war in Iraq" by sending our combat troops home. "It's time," he said, "to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else...
...would love to have Harvard students, just because we have such a wealth of student capabilities. We’d love to have a comeback and people be aware that they have the opportunity to do so.”Still, it can be difficult for the cadets to confront the reality that, according to the Harvard College Handbook for Students, “although the University respects the right of undergraduates to participate in ROTC, the University does not provide any financial or other direct support for the ROTC program.” “I think ROTC...
...coming years.The second tier of courses, consisting of departmental alternatives, should be much more liberal in its awarding of General Education credit. This will give the system added flexibility, ensuring that students are taken out of their comfort zone and exposed to questions and problems they do not usually confront without forcing a one-size-fits-all model on students. Though the report correctly allows departmental courses to count for general education courses, they too must meet the same stringent standards, a requirement we fear will be too constraining.The viability of such a two-tiered system will depend...
...Task Force on General Education has this idea squarely in view. Its authors wrote, “General education is the place where students are brought to understand how everything that we teach in the arts and sciences relates to their lives and to the world they will confront.” There are various interpretations of this and related sentences in the report, some of which have been used to criticize it as an instrumentalist account of general education. But it seems to me better interpreted as the proposal that general education take place in the context...