Word: elitists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because it is irrevocably lost to liberals. Granieri is unlikely to win many friends through his intention to pursue his interest in diplomatic and military history--fields which have come under attack in recent decades by historians who have turned to social history which is held to be less elitist...
...debate surrounding the Undergraduate Council's decision to reinstitute ROTC, it was the opponents of ROTC who were characterized as elitist and excluding. One Eliot House sophomore complained about the "militarization of the lower classes" and the offenses to "patriotic people." A Dunster House senior expressed his concern for "the lower classes of American society" who would have "a lot of very serious problems" encountering homosexuals in their platoon...
Repellent condescension to ROTC members aside, the council position distorts and insults a legacy of hard-won University independence from outside control. Student opposition to ROTC does not stem from elitist discrimination, but from objections to ROTC's own discriminatory policies...
...Harvard sometimes has that elitist attitude that they don't need any advice," Bozzotto says. "But the dining halls cannot be run in some kind of vacuum without student input," he says...
...coaches and school administrators have debated the NCAA's Proposition 42, a plan that would raise the eligibility standards for athletic scholarships. Both sides of the argument claimed to speak for the disadvantaged. Some who opposed higher standardized-test scores tried to limit debate by labeling as racist or elitist those who favored such a change. But the focus of that debate was misplaced: too much attention was given to who gets in and too little to what happens to students once they are accepted...