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When Americans are asked to put themselves into class categories, a huge 86% consider themselves either middle class or working class. That range accommodates enormous differences of attitude. The vice president of a small- town bank and a master plumber may have roughly the same income, but they are likely to look at the world differently. Further, middle-class attitudes and circumstances differ considerably between those over, say, 45 years of age, who may own a home, have a pension, health insurance and other stabilizing structures, and those who are younger, who may make the income but have found...
...United States is a religiously plural nation, and this is a plural university. Our community is home to a rich variety of religious traditions--among them, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu--along with various degrees of religious skepticism; and on certain questions of sexual morality, views differ sharply within and among those who are not religious. While we cannot, as a result, expect consensus on all these questions, it is part of the distinctive role of the university in our culture to represent a space within which a divergence of reasonable opinion on such on such matters is combined...
While AALARM and Peninsula are roughly on the same ideological wavelength, more moderate--and older--conservative groups like the Harvard Republican Club and the Salient differ from them substantially...
...Landry questions the credentials of those who claim to be conservative but differ with the traditional stances of Peninsula...
...self-described conservative campus groups, from Salient to AALARM, fall under this definition. It is in the area of social reform that these groups differ. Perhaps the fundamental criterion which divides these groups is gay rights...