Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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King and Driskell renounced any connection to religious groups beyond their personal membership. Their platform calling for increased "community," they said, did not necessarily call for an increased presence of religion on campus. The incident attracted attention from national media to Harvard's highly competitive student body presidential race...
...sisters' commitments to their religion and to the Jewish community are something that both have strengthened over the years. They grew up in Tampa, where their father worked as a doctor and their mother as a homemaker, but after they came to college their family moved to Israel, where Miriam and Beth now spend their vacations from school...
...share a culture. There's just a different religion," Miriam says. She became interested in the subject after spending a summer during high school learning Arabic in a Jewish-Arabic village in Israel...
...flaws, the program instituted with our class reflects the kind of life we ought to strive for as we enter a world much more diverse than Harvard: a life in which we will not discriminate among human beings on the basis of skin color, sexual orientation or religion; a life in which we will live, eat and send our children to school with persons of all creeds and colors; a life in which we will think of future generations before ourselves and value human variety above homogeneity...
...West accepted a tenured position atPrinceton University as professor of religion anddirector of the school's African-American studiesprogram...