Word: isolationism
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Potential for Concentration. Contingent. A font of temptation for the easily distracted. (See any "Noah's Archives.") However, those who relish the archetypal collegiate image of the student hunched over a desk in a small cubicle, engulfed by books, will find their paradise in the stacks (See "Noah's Archives...
Members of the group bond to one another and lose contact with other people who hold different opinions. The isolation works to reinforce their views, which in turn gives them new purpose. Individuals may even begin unconsciously to compete with each other to make the strongest statements. Nonetheless, many Americans...
Segregation not only has a racist connotation, but also implies discrimination and haughty exclusion. The dictionary definition of segregation focuses on a "separation" or "isolation" of groups. At Harvard, most of the concern over congregation of minority students is focused on Black students who choose to live in the Quad...
THE DIFFICULTY FACING HARTFORD, Connecticut, is by now a familiar one: an inner-city public school system burdened by structural decay and besieged by the pathologies of urban poverty. But while money certainly seems in short supply, what is more troubling here is the isolation in which Hartford's students...
In looking at the question of ramdomizing the Houses, I think the College and students are overlooking an important obstacle in achieving any sort of meaningful diversity in the Houses: architecture. The old river houses were all designed in a different era to suit a different population of Harvard students...