Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said he found it impossible to describe obscenity, but added, "I know it when I see it." Going by that paradoxically common-sensical criterion, it's easy to see that no one can tell if something will be obscene before it is created, so it's silly to say, "Okay, Senator, you win. I won't be obscene...
...That kind of restriction does not assure that we will get the best possible leadership," said Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55. "And that should be the single criterion...
...with no sense of the past injustice that affirmative action seeks to redress, white students use such statistics as battering rams. "Affirmative action is organized governmental racism against white people," charges Temple University student Michael Spletzer, co-founder of the White Student Union. "Individual merit should be the only criterion...
...three events include the criterion, which is 15 laps for the women and 25 laps for the men's A squad around a one-mile loop with embankments. The second event is a team time trial consisting of the best times over a 15-mile flat course. And the third event is a 36-mile individual road race for the women and a 72-mile road race for the men's A squad...
Unfortunately, the staff's proposal does not live up to this goal. The proposed joint student-faculty committee would employ two criteria in assigning performance space: potential to draw crowds and "artistic merit." The first of these is valid--in fact, it is the only fair criterion. The second smacks of subjectivity and paternalism...