Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed that allows as political. say, only opponents of the Vietnam war, and reduces the silent and acquiescent to the status of a-political onlookers. One is thrust into a political role in taking part in the world: this has been repeated from Aristotle through twentieth-century existentialists. The question is thus not "am I or should I be political?" but " realizing that I am political by virtue of my very existence, what sort of politics must I engage...
...faculty statement fails, rather, on different grounds. The crucial words in the statement are "however important." Stripped of pieties and apologies, this statement means that NOTHING is more important to the faculty members in question than the determination of who their potential colleagues will be. No issue or potential issue raised by the world in which we live, not one, has any precedence whatsoever over the evaluation of would-be faculty, when the two issues are linked...
...number of observations may be made with reference to this last reason. One may question whether appealing to "rule and precedent" is on any count the best way of handling problems, especially in a period of rapid and unforeseen change such as our own. One may question the validity of the fear that the consequence of joining in a national effort to end the war in Vietnam will be to drown the Faculty in "continued and inevitably impassioned political debate." It is a great bother, and it takes a great deal of time, to engage in such debate. Most...
...desideratum is that the faculty never be presented with a case that must be dealt with on its merits. Since that is absurd, one notes that "political" cases are specified. Very well, but one man's "politics" are another's "academics" and a third's "ethics." Is the question of ROTC on campus a "political" or an "academic" issue? And how are issues presented as moral matters to be handled...
Procace completed seven of 11 passes for 135 yards and gained 68 yards on nine carries. He accounted for 203 of his season's 270 yards of total offense in a 23-2 win. But Procace usually plays as a defensive back, and there is some question whether he can continue to perform so well...