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...also contradictory for its acceptance of personal stereotypes. Saying that "type" would congregate implies that people are defined by their "type"--that they have no depth beyond "jock" or "nerd." In fact, students have many facets and a plan that defines them as narrow representatives of a particular race, creed or stereotype does them a great disservice...
...wants gold at the Olympics and the rewards of fame. "To be perfectly honest," she said last week, "what I'm really thinking about is dollar signs." And so to the creed of the Games -- faster, higher, stronger -- she adds words she knows all too well. Harder. Longer. Badder. She has worked so hard, tried for so long, wanted so bad. But always the gossamer princesses seduced fortune and celebrity away, leaving her with only ire and ice. And one in particular kept crossing her path -- until they both reached Detroit two weeks...
...Harvard requires in all constitutions of student organizations a statement that "Membership in [the] organization shall be open to all students in good standing currently enrolled in Harvard College, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, or physical disability...
...activist in the 1952 Defiance Campaign--was sentenced to life in prison. In his statement to the court, Mandela articulated his political philosophy and refused to renounce what he saw as a moral obligation to resist white supremacy by the most effective means available. The statement became his creed, and in the first speech after his release in 1990 (and the first in the collection), he concluded by quoting his own by then well-known remarks...
...cold war, those values were pluralism, freedom of individual opportunity, integration and free speech. The goal of universities, cultural institutions and most journals of scholarship and opinion was to open the American experience -- ipso facto a virtuous and desirable one -- to all comers, regardless of race, creed, color or, later on, gender. American culture was considered so good that no one should be denied a chance at it, and no one should be assumed unable to appreciate or comprehend...