Word: dissenters
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...great if they foster dialogue and dissent without imposing an agenda," says Daniel H. Choi '94, who is now a graduate student in the government department...
...great if they foster dialogue and dissent without imposing an agenda," Choi says. "That broadens minds, respects Asian Americans more as people capable of forming their own opinions...
...Through participation. Unfortunately, some organizations like the Asian American Association (AAA) at Harvard have focused too narrowly on ethnic interests. They have lost sight of the higher purpose of the freedom of political association, which is to broaden our minds through the practice of deliberation, persuasion and dissent...
...Asian Americans, the AAA faces two alternatives: (1) Either AAA should dissociate itself from politics and limit itself to non-controversial cultural and social purposes (both of which AAA has commendably served); or (2) AAA should implement formal democratic procedures that insure accountability, encourage political participation and recognize dissent...
...Supreme Court today refused to hear the appeal of an Alaska rental agent who refused to rent to unmarried couples on the grounds that they were being sinful. Over the solo dissent of Justice Clarence Thomas, the court left intact an Alaska Supreme Court ruling that said the agent, Tom Swanner, violated state and local laws by refusing to rent to such couples. Swanner's appeal said these laws violated his First Amendment religious freedoms. Thomas argued that "there is surely no firm national policy against marital-status discrimination in housing decisions...