Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notion that only students should judge other students is a precise, logical statement. It makes good sense: after all, judgment by peers is ingrained in American jurisprudence. But the catch is that this logical precision is undercut by an academic hierarchy in which Faculty assume intellectual and extracurricular ascendancy over students. The logic of outside institutions is lost to it, along with what another editor of this newspaper has called "University democracy...
...judged by their peers, or at least by a number of peers equal to the number of Faculty on the CRR. And, there is a considerable undercurrent of opposition to a committee which judges political offenses without instruction to consider the context of students' actions, and without reciprocal judgment of administrative responsiveness...
...moment to consider the effects of these new proposals on the quality of undergraduate life in this area. Convenience must of course be sacrificed to security. But there are other values of communication and openness in the House area which can perhaps be preserved by careful planning and judgment. Those whose concern is security alone may understandably be impatient with these considerations. My own concern is for the greatest security we can afford that is least disruptive of the life and habits that have made the Houses pleasant, interesting and varied centers of undergraduate life. This can be achieved...
Historian Barbara Tuchman offered the appropriate judgment: "Could anyone, remembering past attitudes, look at that picture of President Nixon and Chairman Mao in twin armchairs, with slightly queasy smiles bravely worn to conceal their mutual discomfort, and not feel a stunned sense that truth is indeed weirder than fiction?" The title of her address: "Why Policymakers...
...almost any sort of intellectual activity. For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all student, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life...