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...recognize that there are always two sides to a conflict and insist that we have the opportunity to have dialogue with the family and the student,” Richard D. Kadison, director of mental health services at University Health Services (UHS), writes in an e-mail. “This is the only way to get a complete picture of the conflict. If the student prefers not to do that, they always have the option of following the existing policy...
Scientific innovations originate outside the dominant paradigm—demanding orthodoxy invites stagnation. Scientists who question evolution, like Intelligent Design theorists, do not reject evolution entirely, but argue that evidence supports a limited explanatory role. Faithful Darwinists, however, like Teilhard de Chardin, insist that evolution is “a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforth...
With all the money that students pay per semester for the cost of living on campus, Dartboard remains perplexed as to why people still insist on hooking up in the middle of the street. Dartboard understands (but does not necessarily participate in) the occasional hook-up in the middle of a party, on the dance floor, with the ever-lurking cameras of Fifteen Minutes capturing your every move for posterity (and their pages of debauchery). As a psychology concentrator, Dartboard sees such behavior as simply an extension of the mob mentality phenomenon in which people in group settings feel that...
...insist on walking [to the Quad], go in groups of two or three. Walk opposite the Common,” he said...
...neoconservatives believe, is unique in its power and its principles. It cannot allow its mission to be tied down by international agreements that diminish its freedom of action. At the same time, neoconservatives insist that theirs is a generous and internationalist vision; other nations, other peoples, will willingly support U.S. policies--which, by definition, are good for them as well as Americans--if only those policies are clearly articulated and implemented with determination...