Word: equal
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...simply not willing to properly recognize the successful completion of four years of academic toil by 48 percent of the student body whose interests and needs he is supposed to represent. We wish to call him publicly accountable for his indefensible behavior and decision not to endorse equal Harvard College recognition for female undergraduate diplomas...
...lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people can become "equal" members of society if they are ordered to keep their sexuality private, as Oppenheim would have it. The queer community can never be the "isolated moral and ethical enclave" that Oppenheim wishes it to be because youth from straight families often grow up to realize they are not heterosexual. I am not convinced that these separate queer and "wider" cultures can exist...
Different but Equal...
Certain foundations may be immutable if a society is to preserve its stability. Perhaps basic models of ethics and of sexuality are two of those foundations. It may be necessary to accept homosexuals as equal citizens without abandoning heterosexuality as our cultural orientation. The queer community may need to accept that the biological footing of the heterosexual majority, and its resulting cultural dominance, cannot be overcome...
Faced with limited financial means and increasingly generous competition, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) last month found its own solution for financial aid reform: all needy students are equal, but some are more equal than others...