Word: preach
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...What irks us are not the creepy traitors of super-power relations but the sanctimonious hypocrites of everyday life. The people who preach one thing and do the opposite. Who practice the very sins they persecute in others. Elmer Gantry. Jim Bakker. And, speaking of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. There's a special satisfaction when they get their comeuppance...
Activists from the student group United Non-Discriminatory Initiative Against Equality (UNITED) held a church-style "preach-in" at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) yesterday, protesting what they view as a lack of diversity in the faculty and denouncing what they say has been an unresponsive administration on the issue...
UNITED was spurred to organize the preach-in in December when they heard that two of the school's few black faculty members, Allen D. Callahan and Preston Williams, were leaving...
...Participants in the preach-in said the lack of diversity in both faculty and curriculum detracted from their education...
...preach-in is the latest of UNITED's events aiming to raise awareness about what they view as a lack of general diversity at HDS. The group, which also wants to create a "Multi-Cultural Studies" program and bring added focus to race, class and gender issues in the school's curriculum, previously handed out statistics on the numbers of minority and female faculty in HDS and held a community meeting...