Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also said that while the magazine does experience rapid turnover, he does not think it is because of dissent...
...courtyard of Dunster House highlight the controversial nature and uncertain future of religion in the houses. The sukkah, which functions as an outdoor house used by Jews to celebrate their harvest holiday, was put up by Dunster's Allston Burr Senior Tutor Suzi Naiburg and numerous interested students. Dissent emerged on two separate fronts: one, the refusal of Dunster Superintendent Joseph O'Connor to allow residents to play volleyball on the lawn, and two, the use of the Sukkah to celebrate a Harvest Moon Festival combining the Jewish holiday with features of the pagan Thargelia festival and the Chinese Zhong...
...Crimson editorial staff really managed to outdo itself on Monday, September 23 ("Presidential Race Offers No Choice"). Without so much as a glimmer of dissent, in its staff editorial it unanimously and unilaterally rejected the ideas of the Republican Party while complaining that Bill Clinton is insufficiently left-wing, and then amazingly lobbed the following stone at Bob Dole: "Certainly he has no new ideas. And the ones he has dredged up from the past are absurd...
...must respectfully dissent on the grounds that I believe courses focusing on a specific period or event to be extremely valuable. To say certain Core courses' narrowness of scope makes them "ridiculous" not only undermines the importance of major periods such as the French Revolution or the Warren Court, but also suggests that breadth and shallowness are inherently better than depth--an altogether dubious assertion. Learning about an important period offered in the Hist B category of the Core (e.g. America and Vietnam or the Civil War) is imperative to an educated person. It is just a shame...
...whole, we are better off than four years ago," Bronfman said. "There might be some areas of dissent, but you've got to focus on the entire package...