Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imperiled. But it is harder to accept his argument that institutions should have neither friends nor enemies, only interests. This notion lies behind his plea for neutrality in the nonacademic realm: a university must protect its vested interests for the sake of academic freedom. Thus he focuses on method instead of effect; thus he strives to make detached cost-benefit analyses; thus his motives and his morals are in the end utilitarian. But there is no organic, causal connection between interests and ideals--unless one is rationalized...
Conservatives were also pleased by the Administration's handling of their call to ban busing as a method of desegregating schools. On the same day he sent his letter on school prayer to the Senate, Attorney General William French Smith notified House Judiciary Chairman Peter Rodino that careful examination of a bill designed to prohibit lower federal courts from ordering busing plans "indicates that [its provisions] are constitutional." This was also a hollow victory for the New Right: although the bill has passed the Senate, it is expected to die in the Democrat-controlled House...
Finally, the College should reexamine its overall method of housing assignment. Some contend that the formula used to calculate housing space favors the River Houses by failing to consider that those Houses usually have living rooms while Quad suites often do not. Others are upset because they deliberately opted for Quad houses to get singles, and found themselves living in either reconstituted common rooms or what officials politely call "ec-doubles"--single rooms into which two students have been squeezed. And we find it dismaying that many houses hold rooms vacant for months on end for "faculty guests," while undergraduates...
...reassure conservative voters that he remains committed to a balanced budget, even though he is proposing the biggest deficits in history. In his speech to the nation last week, Reagan chose the reassurance route. He called on Congress to enact a constitutional amendment requiring balanced budgets as the only method by which "we can stop the Government's squandering, overtaxing ways...
Freeze! may well be designed to help people learn how they can prevent nuclear war, but its main method of accomplishing this seems to be to remind the public that Ted Kennedy is out front on the issue--if you want a freeze, pull the lever next to his name in 1984. Indeed, Kennedy's book is part of his strategy to ride a wave of nuclear protest into the White House...