Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Willie called attention to the tension between a strict standard of merit for hiring decisions and the value of diversity which should be an important goal of a university or college...
...would argue that there are at least four reasons why faculty diversity is in the interest of the Harvard community. First, the fact that the faculty is the least diverse of all groups within an educational institution speaks volumes about what it values in teaching and research. Ideas of merit, then, come to reflect the perspective of a society which has utilized this criteria in order to historically maintain racial domination, such that objective justice dictates that Harvard should erect a corrective standard which provides equal opportunity. However, if one reads the responses of Harvard's academic leaders...
...article was the fact that Jackson, despite the anti-ROTC protest outside the IOP, gave his support to the presence of ROTC units of college campuses. One would think that the fact that Jackson, an ardent liberal and champion of homosexual rights, held such a view would merit greater attention. Come on guys, if he had come out against ROTC, you certainly would have run yet another blaring headline such as "Jackson Rips ROTC" or "Jackson Condemns Homophobic Military...
...reason is that we seniors view the response to this question as an encapsulation of our victim's merit as a person. We did the same during Freshperson Week, except that we now ask where everyone is going instead of where everyone came from...
...realize that there is yet to be a rock lyricist who writes nearly as well as Pope or Dickinson, but some of these citations are just embarrassing. There are lyrics with more literary merit and more social impact than, "You are the sunshine of my life/That's why I'll always stay around." (Stevie Wonder...