Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter released yesterday, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences expressed his regret that the students who built the Yard shanties have failed to respect the right of others in the University community by refusing to remove the makeshift structures before Commencement...
Spence also wrote he was reluctant to initiate any attempt to dismantle the shanties against the will of the protesters lest the administration be accused of failing to respect the right of demonstration. He said such an action might also risk "a more significant disruption of Commencement ceremonies" than allowing the structures to remain...
...said he allowed the shanties to remain up through the spring as an expression of "mutual respect," but said, "I am forced to admit that the respecting of rights has been somewhat one-sided, that a purely voluntary system of balancing rights does not seem feasible, and what might be regarded as an experiment has not been entirely successful...
...MISSING in David Stockman, and is missing in most of the budding politicos in this university, Undergraduate Council types especially, is some sense of personal integrity. Integrity not in the sense of sticking blindly to a cause, creed or ideals; that's called stubbornness. Integrity is having enough self-respect not to debase oneself before one's betters, no matter how much one might admire the person or could use his help. Displaying integrity may slow one's course on the fastrack of success, but it's the only defense against the kind of rationalization that can turn an ambitious...
...retaliates. From time to time, writers in distant places have been startled to pick up the phone and hear the Governor on the line questioning the accuracy of their stories. Often he accuses critics of bad motives. Says a former close colleague: "Mario cannot treat honest criticism with respect. He views it as a personal attack." By now Cuomo has identified exactly how he responds to attacks. Recently he analyzed himself in the diary. "The first phase is the defensive one," he wrote. "For a short time there is regret, distaste, a desire to return to solitude, separation, the back...