Word: defender
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lahoud claims that 30 years of frustration have driven the Palestinians to terrorism. I believe that she underestimated the moral fiber of those she would defend. After 2000 years of frustration, Jews are still able to withstand the temptation of a terrorist policy. I suspect that the majority of innocent Palestinians, Lahoud notwithstanding, are strong enough to do the same--though I hope they will not have to wait as long as the Jews...
...counter this, the administration claims that no special avenues of input or control are necessary in investment and other decisions, because the administration is acting to further interests of all those at Harvard. This is the same straw man that the administration throws up to justify the actions that defend or expand administration control of student life...
...farce, a facade used to justify interference in legitimate student concerns. Students have interests that directly compete with those of the Faculty/administration. Most importantly, the students and Faculty clash whenever student choice runs into faculty expedience or even mere faculty preference, as it did with the Core. To defend what control students have left over their Harvard experience, and to expand the student role at Harvard, students must first begin acting as a unified group within the University, and realize that all students share some common class concerns which must be defended...
...broad-based support for the new student government. When the assembly speaks, it must speak with the enthusiastic support of students. Also, the assembly must be pushed to demand for itself as large a role as possible within the University, mobilizing students within departments and on committees to defend their local interests. If the students let the assembly become a government majors' debating society, it is both their own fault and loss...
...Undergraduate Education (CUE) Guide Course Evaluation sheets for next year's publication, but Professor Petric informs her with a trace of exasperation, that both he and the course will depart after this lecture--and besides, he says, class attendance is not exactly high this day. (Students present will later defend their absent classmates, citing the fact that reading period has already begun and final papers will soon be due.) His microphoned voice echoing over the empty hall, Petric delivers what some will later say is his most brilliant and successful lecture of the term: an excoriating blast of the Arts...