Word: egalitarians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students who aren't members, these clubs--with expensive monthly dues, ritzy parties and beautifully decorated clubhouses--seem both an expression of Harvard's wealth and a direct contradiction to the egalitarian and meritocratic values espoused in academic and extracurricular spheres...
...communist utopia, but I don't think there's huge gaping class differences, huge problems over class," Weld says. "I think Harvard, like the Vatican, is an organization that tends to think long term, and since it seems clear that it has decided it wants a more egalitarian, diverse student body it's probably going to get it sooner or later. It's pretty close...
...Supreme Court last week, trotted out those stereotypes and more in a last-ditch attempt to save the 157-year-old, state-supported Virginia Military Institute as an all-male preserve. According to VMI's argument, women respond more naturally to an "ethic of care" than to an egalitarian "ethic of justice," and those few women who are confident need to go to a women's school to be "reminded" that female "leadership" carries "the hazard of being oppressive." In lower court, VMI had solicited the expert testimony of retired Harvard sociology professor David Riesman, who warned that a young...
...past few years have witnessed the phenomenal growth of perhaps the most open, egalitarian and powerful public forum history has ever known the Internet. Now, in an unsurprising reaction to its popularization, questions are arising as to what degree of free expression is to be allowed on the net. Two recent occurences have brought this issue to the forefront on a national level, and to a lesser extent on a collegiate one as well...
...case of dining halls, the same argument applies. Should students of one religion have to eat outside their own house just to escape the symbols of another religion? Such a situation would run contrary to the University's egalitarian principles...