Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moral Reasoning, which had only three offerings last year, offers six options this year...
Although there is still a low number of Core offerings this year, the distribution is more even, with no area reaching the paucity in last year's Moral Reasoning offerings...
...Yale Five, as they call themselves, do not claim to be passing a moral judgment on others; they simply want to exercise their religious freedom and abide by the rules that their interpretation of Judaism requires. How much respect should a private and secular institution have for devout, even fundamentalist students...
...reason this issue is of great importance to Yale, and consequently to all private universities, is that if Yale backs down and allows the Yale Five to live at home, Yale could open itself up to many objections to their new rule that would create philosophical and moral quandaries for all involved. Who may judge whether one student's unease is more or less valid than another's? If next year, five ultra-Catholic students wish to live at home because the gay students in their dorm make them feel uncomfortable, would that be O.K.? And what if the religion...
...Yale Five say, "We are not trying to impose our moral standards on our classmates or on Yale." But they are tacitly judging all of their classmates who can, in good conscience, live with members of the opposite sex in adjacent rooms, because they refuse to live anywhere near them. They have not singled out a particular group; instead, their aversion is to modern people of any religion, color or creed, including other Jews. The Yale Five's unease results from their peers. And Yale has said for the time being that such an aversion is unacceptable...