Word: contentions
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...characterized Zalacain's future content as a "very dynamic dialogue...
...Unfortunately Osborn does not content herself with her false portrayal of local pro-lifers as violent. She also blames the acts of anti-abortion murderers on pro-lifers in general. To be pro-life is to support all life. Those who are truly pro-life cannot condone the acts of those who do not respect and treasure all life. Osborn is right when she asserts that anti-abortion killers are indefensible. They are indeed as indefensible as any persons who choose one human life over another...
...Michel Chaouli (Faculty, March 18) mistakes a political problem for a theoretical one. The fault is not in literary studies, but with literary studies. Academics in this field are not paid to produce anything, are not paid for the content of their work at all. Our society chooses to pay them to do what they do because they are a symbol of knowledge and tradition, regardless of how radical their theories might be. Really, it's only a kind of effete entertainment or, at best, private passion, for them. The truest words I ever heard in an English class were...
Michel Chaouli (Faculty, March 18) mistakes a political problem for a theoretical one. The fault is not in literary studies, but with literary studies. Academics in this field are not paid to produce anything, are not paid for the content of their work at all. Our society chooses to pay them to do what they do because they are a symbol of knowledge and tradition, regardless of how radical their theories might be. Really, it's only a kind of effete entertainment or, at best, private passion, for them. The truest words I ever heard in an English class were...
Unfortunately Osborn does not content herself with her false portrayal of local pro-lifers as violent. She also blames the acts of anti-abortion murderers on pro-lifers in general. To be pro-life is to support all life. Those who are truly pro-life cannot condone the acts of those who do not respect and treasure all life. Osborn is right when she asserts that anti-abortion killers are indefensible. They are indeed as indefensible as any persons who choose one human life over another. MARAH C. STITH'02 March...