Word: notionalism
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...good first step toward fostering a necessary respect for all points-of-view on campus. Besides urging students not to tear down posters, the council advised the administration to increase its drive to uphold “a community ideally characterized by free expression,” a notion codified in its own Handbook for Students. When a person does tear down a poster or quash a recognized student group’s freedom of expression, the University should not hesitate to send the case to the Administrative Board. Realistically, few vandals will be apprehended, making the need...
Does that mean there is nothing we can do? No, I think that a lot can be done--once we free our imaginations from the presumption that the only alternative is capitulation or war. Nonviolence means finding alternatives to the notion that it is ultimately a matter of kill or be killed. Christians might consider, for example, asking the many Christians in Iraq what we can do to make their lives more bearable. A small step, to be sure, but peace is made from small steps...
...senior in high school, I wondered whether playing the horn might provide a fulfilling career and, though I’ve since abandoned that notion, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) provides me with as fulfilling a musical experience as I could hope for outside of a conservatory. Sitting in the horn section, I see the mix of musicians that makes the experience so rewarding. The aspiring professionals from whom I can learn so much sit beside both those who consider HRO only an extracurricular activity and those who, like myself, find in HRO a mix of serious musical training...
Professor John E. Mack, a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School and a popular writer and commentator on extraterrestrial activity, has disputed the notion that alien abduction claims are fabricated. His spokesperson cites the study as evidence...
...Instead they push the notion over websites, in publications such as Jared Taylor's "American Renaissance " magazine and through on-campus recruiting drives that all racial groups have unique interests and the god-given right to fulfill their destiny. They see themselves, as Swain has written, as "defenders of the legitimate civil rights of white people against what they allege are a host of racial double standards." In short, that affirmative action has made whites the most discriminated-against group in the country and that it can only get worse as a tide of immigrants transforms the U.S. from...