Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group which had been active in this movement (struggling for democratic rights) was the United Committee of Third World Organizations (UCTWO). The UCTWO, which had originally been formed to defend the Afro-American Cultural Center when it came under intense University harassment in 1974, began probing to determine various routes which a struggle for democratic rights at Harvard could take. One subcommittee hit upon Affirmative Action. It was from this subcommittee along with other veterans of the Affirmative Action struggle in other areas that the embryo of the Task Force on Affirmative Action was formed...
...liked to call the 55 upstate New York counties, to write his loving chronicles of the region, including Listen for a Lonesome Drum, Dark Trees to the Wind and a novel, Genesee Fever. Carmer also published volumes on the Susquehanna and the Hudson rivers, which he fought to defend against pollution...
...bone of contention among people who defend holding onto the journalism option is that the committee decided to offer again this year an option called "Fiction"--one which many feel has nothing to do with developing expository writing skills. "We had a fight at a faculty meeting about teaching this creative writing course--one which I don't think is valid," Robbins said. Byker responded with three reasons why he thought "of the two anomalies" in the expository writing curriculum, the fiction course is a more suitable offering: it had a longer history, more demand, and a full-time teacher...
...those in favor of maintaining these recruitment programs defend them to those who say that some standards of excellence will be compromised? One way is to refute the traditional criteria that those who holler "foul" go by. For instance, the National Examination Board which tests mostly memorized material rather than clinical ability, seems to be outmoded at a time when clinicians for poor, especially black areas, are in seriously short supply. The notion that scientific knowledge given during the first two years of med school is more difficult for some blacks than it is for some whites may be true...
...those seasons, though, Restic's teams were not favored to finish on top. This time around, however, Harvard is not only favored, but will have the additional pressure of attempting to defend the title it won a year...