Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirit in opposition, rather than in accommodation, that grips me because the romance, the interest, the challenge of intellectual life is to be found in dissent against the status quo at a time when the struggle on the behalf of under-represented and disadvantaged groups seems so unfairly weighted against them." --Edward Said...
...affirmed by rigorous standards. Yet, while a Harvard education fosters the acquisition of a tremendous amount of knowledge, the College does not necessarily encourage intellectual independence or nonconformity. In fact, the undergraduate experience often fosters traits which are diametrically opposed to the ethos of resistance to the status quo. Professors and courses which promote autonomy and resistance exist at the College, but I find them to be few and far between. Harvard usually teaches and socializes its students, often through subtle and implicit mechanisms, to prize tradition and to submit or defer to authority...
...easier to identify the measures that are used to foster respect for authority and the status quo than to determine how to encourage resistance to such pressures. However, I believe that expecting a Harvard education to inculcate a spirit of nonconformity is futile. Resistance is better promoted on an individual level, through exposure to ideas that usually fall outside of the traditional Harvard curriculum. Intellectual independence can be developed by studying authors such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives...
...America has come a long way since the civil rights days of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, but racism now appears in subtler forms," Jones said, adding that the key to changing the status quo is to "find new ways to see each other...
...notes that, "Arguing for our old fashioned calendar, out of harmony with nearly every other peer institution in the country, we have used the benefits of the reading period as arguments for the status quo...