Word: norms
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Perhaps. Especially when people are afraid to challenge the campus P.C. norm...
...last year by the parents of a young woman named Saima Waheed. They disapproved of her choice of husband and w anted her marriage annulled. Lawyers for Saima's parents argued that the tenets of Islam prohibit women from marrying without parental permission -- and indeed such permission is the norm in Pakistan. The judges ruled that Saima's marriage was valid a nd did not violate Islamic doctrine. What the split on was whether the law permits women to make their own choices in marriage. One of the three judges said the marriage should be annulled. Another said...
Perhaps it is true that any university which values excellence is bound to produce a competitive atmosphere. Here at Harvard, the stakes are higher than the norm, and the competitors know it. However, no one seems to be concerned with the aftermath of our exciting little rat race. The reality of that aftermath is that we live in a place where even a snowball fight turns into a battle for supremacy. Many of our peers conciously sabotage the success of others even when it garners no gain for themselves. Harvard claims to produce the leaders of tomorrow...
Eventually I may become frustrated by being part of Bible's faceless masses, and surely in time the concept of teaching-fellow-taught sections will become a depressing norm instead of just a new experience. But right now, there are some things I love about lecture classes...
...possible that the prevalence of the anxiety-producing version of the gene is a result of natural selection. While hominids were evolving, a certain amount of fear and wariness was a good idea. Rather than being the norm, then, the people who are always cheery and who see the bright side and who say things like "keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole" are in fact carrying a maladaptive genetic flaw. So why haven't they died...