Word: idealizes
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After the fervor of the late 1960s, the 1970s ushered in yet a new white backlash to the "affirmative action" policies. Harvard's policy, documented and celebrated as "ideal" by the Supreme Court's 1974 Bakke v. California case, was to maintain its admissions system, but shift away from the language of affirmative action altogether...
...ideal women's center, coalition members say, is exemplified by the center at Duke University...
Ultimately universities see themselves as business operations, according to Clete, which threatens the ideal conception of the university as a community based on unified educational and humanitarian ideals. "These universities increasingly take on the feeling of corporations," Clete says. "There is not a hell of a lot of evidence that forms a difference between a university and an employer...
...kinds of disciplinary cases, both those that directly relate to a student's academic work at the College and those that fall generally under the rubric of "conduct unbecoming a Harvard student." The latter category can include offenses of a criminal nature. For all cases, it would be ideal if students could select outside representation instead of having their options limited to representation by College officials. Further, the perceived fairness and accountability of the Ad Board could be greatly improved if students sat as members and if the records of the proceedings were made public (with names with-held...
...simultaneously suspending our conversation as we emerged over the dark and glassy Charles and clicked across the Longfellow Bridge. As a belated Mother's Day gift we were going to see what turned out to be a quite racy production of the musical "Cabaret." It was perhaps not the ideal show to which to take one's mother, but I smiled in thinking how my sense of the boundary of indecency so strongly reflects my mom's influence...