Word: rarely
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...genuine religious faith seems increasingly rare nowadays, genuine respect for religious faith seems even rarer. And the same holds true at Harvard. In the wake of Coming Out Week and a slew of homophobic graffiti in several River Houses, the Undergraduate Council has brought an oft-attacked policy of the Freshmen Dean Office (FDO) to the forefront of undergraduate debate. On Oct. 24, the council created a task force to work for the end of the FDO's policy of allowing incoming first-years placed with gay roommates to change rooms prior to their arrival at Harvard...
More importantly, the current FDO policy recognizes the genuine, heartfelt religious faith of many incoming students, Christian and otherwise. These students are probably not rare--at least, 83 percent of Americans call themselves Christians, and 65 percent of Americans oppose gay marriage...
...they dangerous. The most interesting students here tend to be those who genuinely believe something, those who stand apart from the merely tolerant ranks of hollow men. Rare are the students who can keep their faith when all about them are losing theirs. They should not be taken for granted...
Opportunities for MIT students to study abroad are rare because of the school's high number of required courses. The joint curricula that will be developed under the Cambridge-MIT Institute, along with the aid of distance-learning technology, will allow students to take their classes on the other side of the pond...
...month we'd been climbing and exploring in this corner of Antarctica. To visit such a wilderness in the waning moments of the 20th century struck us as a rare and fleeting privilege--an incredible stroke of good luck. Keeping this firmly in mind, we went to extraordinary lengths to minimize our impact on the place so that others would find it in a similarly pristine condition. When we departed, we even packed out our accumulated feces. I couldn't help thinking, however, that 100 years in the future, or even 50, a genuine wilderness experience will probably be hard...