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...series of meetings with five top-ranking officials over the past week, including President Neil L. Rudenstine. The group first mobilized two weeks ago to protest an alleged lack of diversity at a Junior Parents' Weekend panel and issued a list of demands on a flyer, "The Peculiar Institution...
...started with a flyer titled "The Peculiar Institution...
...alliance of minority groups called the Coalition for Diversity asked the College two weeks ago to create a new Core division for ethnic studies. The demand was one of five the group issued on a flyer titled, "The Peculiar Institution...
About 15 coalition representatives will attend the meeting this evening, the first face-to-face talk with an administrator since the coalition issued its demands in the flyer titled "Peculiar Institution," a little over a week...
...surface a religious core, some older binding energy of belief or superstition, previous to civic consciousness, previous almost to thought. Here is the paradox of God-love as a life-force, the deepest well of compassion, that is capable of transforming itself into a death-force, with the peculiar annihilating energies of belief. Faith, the sweetest refuge and consolation, may harden, by perverse miracle, into a sword -- or anyway into a club or a torch or an assault rifle. Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute. The mystery is now on view among the Hindus and Muslims of India...