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Perhaps professors sometimes deny that ideology, personality, and academic politics influence their teaching, tenure decisions, and scholarship. Some prefer, instead, to pretend that theirs is a pure vocation, a neutral pursuit of knowledge, independent of base emotions and ambitions which exist in the outside secular world...
...Blacks, especially in light of his most hateful statement to date, calling Adolf Hitler a "great man." Secondly, it is certainly the right and even the obligation of any American to comment on wrongful actions towards any other American, such as the ostracism of Milton Coleman by Farrakhan. To pretend otherwise is to separate oneself from the American people as a whole, and to deny legitimate democratic rights...
According to WROX spokesman John Klops, bands must bring their own record, which they pretend to lip-synch and to play along with. Contestants were judged on the music they played, their dress, degree of realism, crowd response and overall performance...
...ever pretend to try to equal the faculty involvement with students that there is at Harvard," says Arthur J. Gallagher director of residential life. "There is a point to stop trying to bridge the gap between students and faculty. It's important for students to be able to let their hair down and have...
...cannot pretend and do not wish to preach to my fellow members, as their conceptions of responsibility are solely up to them...