Word: equal
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...reasons, the House system being only one of them. Undergraduates should be able to maximize their exposure to those aspects of Harvard of life which they enjoy and minimize their exposure to those which they dislike. The idea that students must approach all aspects of the "Harvard experience" with equal vigor lessens the ability of students to create their own optimal learning environments...
...long-term goal, the members said they hope to eventually change Harvard's "patriarchal" structure in favor of a more gender equal system...
...reads like the typical Barnicle columns Dartboard used to know and love: equal parts schmaltz, anger and righteous indignation. But Barnicle, the self-styled fighter for the downtrodden and voiceless, doesn't seem to realize he was in the wrong. In one rationalization of his behavior, he writes, "...reconstruction dialogue in a 1995 column is a clear failure to abide by today's standards. It was not always so but is now." The implication is that this 25-year veteran of the Metro page was taken by surprise by suddenly stricter standards. He also implies that the greater good accomplished...
Today, we happily live in a society where most people consider "he" and "she" to be equal--as people, at least. As a pronoun, however, "she" still hits the grammatical glass ceiling while "he" runs rampant, masquerading as a "gender-unspecific pronoun" that represents both men and women. But the supposition that "he" or "his" may refer to both sexes is ludicrous, since study after study has shown that people of both sexes take this pronoun to refer exclusively to a male. The elusive "gender unspecific pronoun" represents a gap between the rules of grammar and the rules of society...
According to Chen, it will be necessary forboth sides to negotiate on equal footing.Otherwise, Chen said, tensions will only fuel apush for Taiwanese independence...