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Theoretically, this idea might have some merit, but when the process is conducted by people like Read, who blur together the entire Eastern hemisphere, and who allow a 18-year-old kid to be dragged through a public trial for the sake of placating Greeks without gripes, Hackney should have intervened on the side of truth and justice with all possible speed...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: The President and the Buffalo | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

Murray said she was hired on her own merit and Vincent's relationship with the master "had nothing to do with [her]." Murray refused to specify whether she was romantically involved with...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Dunster Tutors Charge Unfair Hiring Practices | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...rubric of "diversity" or psychologized to the point of paralysis. The ideology of victimhood proves fatal to its victims if it is not quickly converted into a concept of self discipline and personal virtue. If anything, we need to cultivate a larger sphere in which individual responsibility and merit are unconditionally demanded and respected...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: Making Affirmative Action Work | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...University of Michigan in 1991. Whistleblowing and chanting with the intent of drowning out the speaker is not behavior commensurate with the status that is being extended to the Class of 1993. Rather, it is the mark of a band of extremists whose arguments are so devoid of merit that they will not survive in the arena of rational discourse. They must find an avenue of protest that will exhibit both their displeasure with the selection of Powell and their ability to engage in rational, reasoned displays of dissent which do not infringe on the rights of others...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Dissent Decorously | 4/23/1993 | See Source »

...disagreements in the past. Nor does the Commencement speaker have to be acceptable to all. If Hillary Rodham Clinton were chosen, she would be offensive to pro-life students, as offensive as Powell is to opponents of the ban. Yet few would argue that she doesn't merit an invitation...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Valuable Debate | 4/23/1993 | See Source »

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