Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement presumes that students violate "academic freedom" by demanding a voice in the selection and content of courses. Students are, however, members of the academic community. As universities persist in offering courses which are irrelevant, offensive and even intolerable, students justly will be stepping up their demands for change and for meaningful student participation to guarantee implementation of necessary change. Those who argue for Faculty hierarchical; prerogatives merely are defending the status quo, not academic freedom...
Hangman Without Pay. Dr. Carl Jung, the late Swiss psychiatrist, once observed that mountains are not only geographical barriers; they can also limit the horizons of the human spirit. In many of the country's remote Alpine valleys and gorges, medieval habit and thought persist so strongly that Stocker and Kohler's defense counsel found it worthwhile to call for theological testimony to justify the defendants' religious zeal...
...anti-ROTC extremists apparently do not accept the criticality of ROTC to our defense establishment. They persist in the notion that the armed forces will continue to exist and perform their functions, somehow, without ROTC. The blunt truth is that Officer Candidate School (OCS) programs are not attractive to college graduates unless there is extreme pressure from the draft. One reason is obvious: the Army OCS volunteer must serve a three-year tour of active duty not two years as in the case of the ROTC graduate or the college graduate drafted into the Army as a private...
...FROM HOPE. "A 'no' to death," says Berger, "is profoundly rooted in the very being of man." Even in the face of immediate death, he argues, men persist in believing in the future and find in that hope a source of courage for the most self-sacrificing acts. "Empirical reason indicates that this hope is an illusion," Berger admits, and he stands in respectful awe of the stoic who can accept this fact without flinching. Yet most men are not stoics and still continue to hope, so unabashed in their rejection of death that there must be some...
...anti-ROTC extremists apparently do not accept the criticality of ROTC to our defense establishment. They persist in the notion that the armed forces will continue to exist and perform their functions, somehow, without ROTC. The blunt truth is that Officer Candidate School (OCS) programs are not attractive to college graduates unless there is extreme pressure from the draft. One reason is obvious: the Army OCS volunteer must serve a three year tour of active duty, not two years as in the case of the ROTC graduate or the college graduate drafted into the Army as a private...