Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oppression in that racially divided nation by the white minority government. The University has shunned discussing that issue with interested members of the Harvard community. Instead, students, faculty, alumni and staff have been forced to build a symbolic shanty in the Yard and takeover buildings, in order to remind University officials of the regime Harvard's investments support...
...tell SASC what they are saying with the shanties that they erected. I can't speak for those who erected the shanties (unlike the presumptuous editors of The Crimson), but to me they say "This is an important issue. We're going to do what we can to remind you of it. We want to achieve change." There is nothing intolerant in telling people this. Tolerance is not ignoring issues, being apathetic, saying nothing about an issue because somebody might disagree with you. Tolerance is addressing issues, voicing your opinions, and allowing others to do the same. The shanties...
Being tolerant does not mean being silent. Examining your convictions and carefully reanalyzing problems does not preclude action on your convictions. Listening to others opinions does not mean you have to agree with them. Reminding people that a problem exists does not mean you are assuming superiority. If that were true then the conservatives who remind us of suffering in Afghanistan are equally guilty. The generalizations about all liberals made by The Crimson are partly groundless, partly ludicrous, and partly based on a small minority. There are thousands of students at Harvard. The majority voted for Mondale in the campus...
...ability to get satellites into orbit had been seriously impaired. But NASA looked with confidence to the workhorse Delta. It had flown successfully 43 consecutive times, including its last mission, on Nov. 13, 1984. "We need this satellite," said NASA Acting Administrator William Graham, "and we need to remind ourselves that we have had success in the space program...
...University each year reviews its affirmative action policies. This review "is done in part to remind ourselves of the need for continued commitment to recruiting women and minority scholars to our faculty," says Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence. However, a recent Harvard study found that the University underuses the pool of qualified minority and women scholars in the majority of academic fields...