Word: expressionism
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Rudenstine says the challenge of our university is "to maintain the values of diversity and free expression, while also attempting to create a humane community in which people respect one another's differences, and seek to understand and know one another well."
Last week Biehl, 26, a Fulbright scholar dedicated to hastening South African democracy, became the first American victim of the pitiless violence that has accompanied the country's slow transformation. Her nationality was not significant to the teenagers who knifed her repeatedly in the head: her skin color was reason...
The most significant thing in the last half-century has been the dramatic expansion in personal freedom and personal mobility, individual rights, the reorienting of culture around individuals. We obviously value that. But like all human gains, it has been purchased at a price. Most people faced with greater freedom...
If the difference between law-abiding and destructive behavior is so simple, then maybe we should rethink the idea of a fundamental right to free expression--since free expression (violent television) would preclude freedom of action (the ability to choose not to be violent).
Meanwhile Sheldon Hackney, former president of the University of Pennsylvania and President Clinton's nominee for chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, was savaged for saying, after black students seized and threw away copies of a campus newspaper with an offending column, "Two important university values, diversity and...