Word: mooted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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that the resolutions on Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) "were moot because this year's council cannot bind future councils to its decisions...
...revisionist department, the newsletter claims that this year's council has effectively dealt with the ROTC issue and gained valuable learning experience in planning big-name concerts. In fact, the council's resolutions on the future of ROTC were moot because this year's council cannot bind future councils to its decisions. And their concert "learning experience" consists of a string of rejections from concert performers who probably couldn't fill a Harvard arena anyway...
...administration for not hiring minority faculty left and right. But they never bring up the fundamental issue: few minorities enter academia, so there are few minority scholars out there for Harvard to hire. The PC have limited the issue to one side: more minority faculty hiring. The rest is moot. PC causes suffer because of PC narrowmindedness...
...second. The most effective means of controlling a contagious epidemic is through prevention. But the AIDS movement has emphasized the rapid development of treatments for AIDS victims. Says Michael Nesline of the activist group ACT UP: "We're fighting for people for whom the question of prevention is a moot point." In this regard, the movement found allies in conservative politicians who were unable to support "safe sex" education but saw AIDS research as politically neutral...