Word: effort
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Over the course of the semester students have dedicated sizable portions of their lives to the classes they take. To teach them professors have spend much time and effort. Allow students to reach that new plateau of understanding: leave reading period for reading...
While we support the effort to increase interaction between students of different races, ethnicities, and religions, we believe the price that students of color must pay under the present policy is particularly high. The perception among many is that randomization places the burden of diversification firmly on the shoulders of individual minority students, who are now forcibly dispersed across the campus. By sprinkling a "manageable" number of minority students in each of the twelve houses one does not necessarily ensure increased students interaction. In fact, we contend that randomization has actually stifled student interaction in many houses. Through public...
...stone" and could be reexamined in several years. We believe the time has come for the University to reexamine its policy of randomization, and we urge them to consider the input of students, tutors, and alumni/ae. We support the desire to increase student interaction, but the current effort leaves much to be desired. In our opinion, randomization, especially in the absence of alternative mechanisms to provide for the social well-being of underrepresented minorities, is not the right answer. We urge the University to open the dialogue about forming healthy and vibrant communities to encompass new ideas. To this...
...subject of human rights, Rehman likewise applies selective judgement. In this effort to apply "fundamental questions of justice," Rehman makes no mention of widespread human rights abuses perpetrated by the Palestinian Authority. Rehman correctly points out that human rights remain an international concern; it is for this reason that his highly selective condemnation is especially troubling, as it skews this terrible and complex conflict by portraying the issues in black and white, in terms of perpetrator and victim...
Rice noted that this visit, along with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's visit last June, were part of an effort to change American perceptions of and forge new relations with Africa...