Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephone poll revealed that a another third opposed divestment, whereas in the UC referendum taken in dining halls only about a sixth said they opposed it. This discrepancy says something about the two different polling methods. Clearly person-to-person methods, whether UC referenda or SASC petitions, misread campus opinion by discouraging divestment opponents from airing their point of view...
...analogy--sometimes used to legitimate the "majority" results of divestment opinion polls--is that virtually everyone called President Reagan's re-election margin a "landslide majority" when in fact it was only a plurality of all potential voters. Nobody questioned the legitimacy of his election even though a majority of the American people did not say "we want you as President." So, activists contend, why should we question the legitimacy of divestment poll results...
...campus liberals really don't deserve to be called liberals. They should be called non-liberal, anti-conservative, or something like that. To regain their name, they must reevaluate their attitude toward debate and reconsider the tactics they find acceptable to further their goals. They must accept diversity of opinion, and they must listen to and understand what their foes have...
...sail against the tide of public opinion to come out with the story that ran in today's paper. And that's precisely what a truly fine newspaper must do sometimes...
...erosion of the belief that scholars and scholarship, regardless of their sources of funding and their different political perspectives, do share the norm and the practice of a commitment to truth and unbiased use of evidence. Do we really want to live in an intellectual climate in which our opinion of a book or article rests on who paid the piper? If things come to that, I can see little reason why any young person with integrity would want to become a scholar...