Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This wave of revisionist (i.e. politically correct) arguments shifted the focus of the discussion on the underclass from the problems of racial isolation and economic class subordination to discussions of Black achievement and Black pride. Sociologists and policy-makers who attempted to link the life in the ghetto to broader social problems were criticized for holding to "white middle class" social and behavioral norms. This unfortunate turn in the debate squelched hard-headed, liberal proposals--proposals that might have solved the underclass problem--for more than two decades...
...staff makes the egregious error, however, of saying that Harvard's curriculum needs to be more diverse (read; politically correct) than it already is, and that having an ethnic studies requirement might prevent professors from including ethnic perspectives in other courses. But ethnic perspectives have no place whatsoever in the vast majority of our courses...
Allyson C. Hawkes '96 said she once returned to her room in Canaday F to find her bed soaked with water. "This is a real problem that I think they should correct [for future residents]," Hawkes said...
...during that run for chair that I pushed election reform long before it became a hot issue. During the scandal this fall, I held an officer accountable for her abuse of power despite our personal friendship and despite knowing that I would be vilified until my accusations were proven correct...
...Islam and the discussion arranged by Jesse Jackson which followed the showing of the film "The Liberators," have forced Veritas back into my mind. What motto would Harvard have chosen for itself if it had been established in the past decade? "Truth" these days is not a very politically correct word. So heartless. So unyielding. I used to think that a malleable truth is an oxymoron, but apparently no longer...