Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more direct. "How can it be racist when you're trying to protect the rights of a minority?" he bristled. Maybe Alison can help: It's not racist, she explains. It's just the wrong way to do the right thing, and it assumes biases that do not necessarily exist. In the recent election, she says, three openings for senior-class representative were open to students of all races, and two of the winners were black. In another color-free contest, a black was voted prom queen. So maybe more students would look past color lines, Alison says, if adults...
Believe in institutions, but do not marry them. Establishments exist to moderate; they look for function. You are likely to work for some company or other, but keep a safe distance. There is no contempt as bitter as that felt by compromised minds for the independent ones that have joined them. Grin broadly at the water cooler, and go home to where you live...
...order for academic IT to be used more widely, strong communication channels need to exist for the Faculty to remain informed of how new projects can be begun. Decentralization forces faculty members to take the initiative themselves to use more technology...
...education fosters the acquisition of a tremendous amount of knowledge, the College does not necessarily encourage intellectual independence or nonconformity. In fact, the undergraduate experience often fosters traits which are diametrically opposed to the ethos of resistance to the status quo. Professors and courses which promote autonomy and resistance exist at the College, but I find them to be few and far between. Harvard usually teaches and socializes its students, often through subtle and implicit mechanisms, to prize tradition and to submit or defer to authority...
...Biological Sciences 10: "Introductory Molecular Biology"] principally depends on the sourcebook that I wrote and there is a textbook for supplemental readings," says Richard M. Losick, professor of molecular and cellular biology. "There isn't a textbook that corresponds to the nature of the course; one just doesn't exist...