Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concrete demands which the Coalition is making are simple and well-publicized: divestiture and commitment to Afro-American Studies. One needn't follow any party line in order to protest on behalf of these issues. Protest can never put an end to debate, but debate often postpones moral decisions that should be made today. --Jeff Goodwin...
...panel also discussed the moral problems involved in the naming of the Englehard Library, and the lack of blacks and other minority groups represented in the Kennedy School faculty...
...force. All sides admit to having made mistakes--but participants, on the whole, are satisfied that their position was correct. Many wonder aloud about how the groups could perhaps have cooperated more closely; privately, off the record, they describe their former antagonists as "flaming assholes," "brash and arrogant," and "moral cowards...
...many students, this type of psychological confrontation peaked during the takeover. Hemphill, one of the first students to enter University Hall, says, "The occupation seemed very good at the time. It represented, for me, taking a moral stand." The stand proved a costly one. The Committee of 15, the precursor to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, forced Hemphill to leave Radcliffe for a year in 1970. She subsequently attended another school, specialized in urban education and is only now returning to Harvard's Graduate School of Education...
...there are moral lessons to be learned. Ansara told today's students, noted for their complacency: "You have freedom to explore ideas, raise controversial questions. You should appreciate that." On this point, Kelman agrees. "We took too much for granted," he says. "We assumed that young people's burst of idealism was natural. Now it seems like a very precious and not always attainable thing...