Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prevalence of "loose and careless logic" at Harvard is actually quite shocking. Much of the sloppy thinking at Harvard is the result of a reliance on American mythology--the assumption that this nation is the bastion as well as the exporter of freedom, democracy and unquestionable moral superiority. However, this mythology ignores the troubling fact that America has in many ways failed to live up to its lofty ideals. One particularly problematic aspect of American history is our nation's legacy of racial conflict, injustice and exclusion. These issues are frequently glossed over or ignored...
...tensions. The U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 is frequently discussed in the same manner. A teaching fellow for a class about economic development told me that he graded harshly a paper that I wrote about U.S. economic warfare against Nicaragua because I had not included a moral justification for such action. When I asked how this sabotage could be morally justified, this buffoon actually told me that because the U.S. had defeated Hitler and Stalin, America had paramount moral stature...
...Harvard. This University will not fully embody its motto, veritas, until it "found[s] Right on righteousness and Truth on the unhampered search for Truth," principles of education that were advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois. Only then will Harvard graduates be prepared to be the bold and unflinching moral leaders that America so desperately needs...
...remember our years in college as a very dark time," writes Gregg Kilday '71, a writer for Entertainment Weekly. "The war was always hanging over our heads. There was always some moral issue that had to be wrestled with, debated, resolved...I suspect we were cheated out of some of our youth--which is actually a small complaint when so many others in our generation lost their lives...
...make the College a bastion of comfortable learning for undergraduates. Students are not chattel. The administration cannot trough-feed us the Core or placate us with the Loker Commons. We believe in the strength and unity and goodness that an undergraduate community dedicated to a rigorous education and a moral responsibility can achieve. We believe in the power of democracy not simply as a balance of group interests but as a mechanism of fostering community. We believe that the council's purpose should be to uphold these beliefs, to fight for student concerns within the present system and to foster...