Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during this second small group meeting that the most significant progress was made. One student asked, "Why don't Jews do more to help other struggling minorities? You of all peoples should understand what struggle is like." A Jew inquired of the black students, "Why doesn't your community take more responsibility for its own plight?" Inquiries and answers flew back and forth. At one point, during a discussion about Jewish loyalty to Israel, I suggested that the roots of that loyalty lie at the deepest level in the Jewish fear that someday, somehow, we may be forced...
Even with regard to my personal experience, I wonder whether my positive sentiments are but the illusory product of some social psychological phenomenon and not any real progress in understanding. I'm bothered by the fact that no one at the discussion tackled affirmative action, perhaps the most contentious racial issue today, head-on. And I worry that the sense of connection built on Monday night cannot exist outside the artificial environment of our official dialogue...
...Harassment] was a problem with Harvard policein the past and I think we've made some progress,"Epps said. "We've been working very hard withthem...
This is not to say that there are not campus issues which deserve the attention of the UC, student groups, and individual students; issues like faculty diversity and campus safety need to be addressed (and to the extent that Stewart makes progress on these concerns, we applaud her). But they need to be addressed because they speak to broader societal problems that demand our attention...
...Fukuda's war room, Room 58 of the health department's downtown headquarters, a large whiteboard listed all the cases and tracked their medical progress. A big downward arrow meant death. With new urgency, Fukuda and the CDC hunted the sources of infection, collecting 3,000 blood samples and helping question some 2,500 people...