Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have criticized him had the minority in question been black students or women. And of course, he is right. However, he doesn't stop there. In brilliant rhetorical style he advances from a defensive position into a high-flung moral argument, invoking Tocqueville's "tyranny of the majority" to defend his representation of that poor, tyrannized campus minority, final club members. Mr. Cooper will not, he says, "yield to popular passions on issues of prejudice or discrimination" against final club members...
...might have helped forge a narrow victory for the final clubs at last Sunday's meeting, but such a tactic will not work at the dinner table, where each individual is entitled to state his or her own opinion. If friends and members of the Fly are to successfully defend their integrity on campus, they must answer critics' moralegalitarian arguments. Only the First Amendment guaranteeing "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" will serve as an effective line of defense. Members and fans of the Fly must refocus the debate so that the injustice to men who merely choose...
...minority group has a respected human and legal right to participate and be considered as an equal member of an informed debate. It is this commitment to truly equal representation which my statement regarding the final clubs clearly reflects, and which I am quite proud to uphold and defend as the vice chairperson of the Undergraduate Council. I find it truly difficult to understand why such a thought is so upsetting to Mr. Orenstein. Jeffrey A. Cooper '90, Undergraduate Council Vice Chairman
...some who try get burned. Take the case of Brown University yesterday. First, Jenny Norton, the defending champion in the 500-yd. freestyle, finished her morning swim in a time of 5:01. Last year, that trial swim would have placed her fourth overall, in fine position to defend her title...
...rent my room to John Kenneth Galbraith. When I changed my wash soon after, I threw every bit of lint in the trash--you never know what teenage social ill she would attribute lint to. If I lived in a house, any house, I wouldn't have to defend beer parties and loud music to an octogenarian...