Word: discussion
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Healy suggested that MIT and Harvard officials be brought to the table to discuss the issue before pursuing litigation...
...presume to define morality here; indeed, moral standards can change over time and space. But that's all the more reason to discuss them in the public arena. Nothing could be more democratic or more American. When we put our hands up and refuse to discuss the implications of the actions of immoral individuals--on the grounds that individual rights are more vital to the functioning of American democracy than context specific values--we do our country and our children a disservice...
Morality transcends narrow religious differences because morality, along with citizenship, is one of the few things that binds us all together. We can discuss a public official's private behavior and decide whether it is immoral or not, but the discussion has to take place. Morality certainly has a place in public discourse; simply to ignore private behavior and to say that it is personal, and thus beyond reproach, is destructive and undemocratic. Sujit Raman '00 is a history concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
Berkowitz's raises two broad procedural objections in his grievance. First, he alleges that the ad hoc committee convened to discuss his appointment was not well-constituted; some of its members lacked expertise in his field, while others were predictably antipathetic to his cause...
Other problems with the council itself have cropped up which were not really my fault or anyone else's, in my estimation. There are those who long for a council which hotly and passionately debates issues of a national scale, a council which isn't afraid to discuss issues of conscience whose locus is outside of Harvard. To this day, I believe that the council is not designed for politics. But that does not mean the elimination of politics has not bred new problems. The painful reality is that all the grandstanding and junior senatoring the council used...