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College journalism has a borrowed vice. Young men, getting a pen into their hands, use it recklessly in spite of the warning of good taste. They forget that they pretend to be gentlemen, hence unpleasant contests. Hard words, we believe, should be reserved for those cases where men willfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...
...disclosure requirements, Feeney incorporated his foundations in Bermuda and sought no tax deductions. For years Forbes magazine listed him as one of the 400 richest Americans, even though he has reportedly bled his wealth of all but $5 million; Feeney abhors the list, but he let the fiction persist rather than betray his charity. Early in the year, a lawsuit over the sale by his foundation of its stake in DFS threatened to expose the scope of Feeney's giving. So he broke out of his cocoon, telling the New York Times, "Money has an attraction for some people...
What the council currently lacks most in its dealings with the administration is the political capital that comes with support from the student body. Turnout levels on elections persist at abysmally low levels. By delivering change that directly affects the lives of students and drawing attention to those changes, Cohen can bring the council the legitimacy it sorely needs...
...capacity for establishing and protecting public discourses and mounting challenges to dominant ideas. But that leadership is not to be selected by the mass of people according to some objective criterion (such as the ability to understand Jurgen Habermas); rather, it has to be self-motivated and has to persist as an ever-humming potential waiting to emerge--and blossoming from--within a democratic political process that is accessible...
Although any change in usual behavior should be a red flag, one should seek help if the following symptoms persist for more than two weeks or what seems unusual...