Word: demanding
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...many students were outraged because the report diluted their biggest demand: the call for an Afro-Am department. The report called only for the establishment of a committee on Afro-Am, but students held out for a formal department...
...main demand of the group, the forerunner of the Black Students' Association, was a call for the establishment of an Afro-American studies program...
...anyone should be wary of Guinier, it's the multicultural activists who want to institutionalize their group identities. Whether they want to set up ethnic studies departments or ensure themselves a permanent affirmative-action check-off box of graduate school application, ethnic activists who demand such special treatment from institutions should take heed of Guinier's warnings about entrenching racial divisions and categorizations. Measures like racial gerrymandering, Guinier warns, "may be rigidly essentialist, presumptuously isolating, or politically divisive." Race-based affirmative action and separate ethnic studies departments (Asian American, Latino, etc.) share the same essentialist, presumptuous and divisive potential...
...demonization by the fuming, nonsmoking majority. "Like wars of religion," writes Richard Klein in Cigarettes Are Sublime, "the campaign against smoking lends itself to cruel fanaticism and self-righteous indignation." People who would never dare chastise a co-worker for his body odor or four-letter vocabulary will demand of a smoker, "When you gonna give up that awful habit?" or just...
...Larry is anything but a person without aconscience," said Homans. "The time spent on acase, the difficulty of a case and the degree ofsuccess are all factors that decide payment, andwhen your services are in such high demand,payment are high...