Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aside from the logistical assistance these facilities afford, many students say the centers help fulfill a deeper need. Princeton senior Rhinold Ponder, former co-chairman of the university's center, points out that Third World students admitted to predominately white institutions face a constant dilemma. "The idea of accepting minority students to a place like Princeton or Harvard is not enough. They just can't be readily integrated into the mainstream--they are culturally different, and in order to share themselves, they have to learn about themselves," Ponder says...
...argument commonly used against establishing a Third World center says minorities will not be assimilated into the mainstream if they are encouraged to congregate. In response, Ponder says, "Any university has to perpetrate an environment conducive to students' well-being and comfort; only then will the minority student be better able to share himself and be well integrated...
...Ponder adds that Princeton's center has a stigma of being "radical" attached to it--although "because of this school's rabid conservatism, just about any political activity is deemed radical.'" Some white students, Ponder says, view the center as perpetuating prejudice. But that's usually the perception of those who don't care to find...
...Culture, noted that, in their eyes, a "good" and "successful" man was one "who has cheated another of his place." The U.S. is far from living by any such absurd, upside-down ethic. Yet, in the light of today's trends, it can do no harm to ponder the price society pays for the incessant abuse of trust. -By Frank Trippett
...more complex than an interest in whodunit. If J.R. Ewing had not committed himself to a life of stylish wickedness-and if the part did not fit Hagman like an iron whip in a velvet glove-few viewers would care that he was near death or trouble themselves to ponder the assailant's identity. If the scheming scion of Ewing Oil were not surrounded by a nest of relatives, all pursuing their venal and venereal desires through a plot delirious in its complexity, he would be perceived as a cartoon villain among prime time's standard retinue...