Word: oughtness
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...manner in which our current Ph.D.s are faring in the job market does not tell us much about what we should do about graduate admissions," Shepsle says. "I think the general feeling is that the academic marketplace is contracting a bit and we ought to be a little prudent but not overreact...
...When we don't take active stands...some people think we ought to be doing more," she says...
...creation of an ethnic studies department, it endorses a flawed argument. By embracing the view that academic departments should be created for the purpose of righting political wrongs, it adopts the vocabulary and philosophy of ethnic studies proponents. University departments should not become vehicles for political activism, their role ought to be to deliberatively explore spheres of thought without any underlying ideological motivation...
...Common Pursuit: "The creation of narrowly defined administrative or curricular entities in the FAS would be misguided. Our faculty do not favor limiting the study of ethnicity to a handful of groups whose own self-determination has been changing over time.... The study of ethnicity at Harvard is, and ought to be, focused on the broad canvas of human experience...
...resident of Washington, I don't know and I don't care if Marion Barry has reverted to his old habits of drinking and drugging. Stoned or sober, he is an embarrassment to the city and a hindrance to African Americans. He ought to do us all a favor and retire to private life...