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...Pelosi has pointed out, “there’s never been a good time” to draw Turkey’s ire over this issue. Furthermore, a modern nation yearning to join the European Union ought to make peace with its past. If President Bush can claim that acts of genocide will never occur “on his watch,” surely he should not shy away from recognizing one for the sake of political expedience. We are also disappointed that leadership of the recognition of the Armenian genocide has largely been left to politicians...
...assert its domination over the Council,” Ragalie proclaimed. “It has already committed the worst crime of all: it has rejected truth in claiming to protect it.” If that isn’t the kind of well-reasoned rhetoric that we ought to demand from our administrators, then I don’t know what is.University administrators, by their nature, prevent us—citizen-scholars that we are—from acting on our god-given right to rule this College. After decades of our parents’ telling us that...
...American anxiety about higher education is about more than just cost. The deeper problem is a widespread lack of understanding and agreement about what universities ought to do and be. Universities are curious institutions with varied purposes that they have neither clearly articulated nor adequately justified. Resulting public confusion, at a time when higher education has come to seem an indispensable social resource, has produced a torrent of demands for greater “accountability” from colleges and universities...
...next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future. A university looks both backwards and forwards in ways that must—that even ought to—conflict with a public’s immediate concerns or demands. Universities make commitments to the timeless, and these investments have yields we cannot predict and often cannot measure. Universities are stewards of living tradition – in Widener and Houghton and our 88 other libraries...
...while Conant, according to Faust, expressed confidence that Harvard would uphold the same core values if it continued to exist, Faust cited "a widespread lack of understanding and agreement about what universities ought to do and be," arguing that the institutions are "at once celebrated and assailed...