Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the proposals lay a concept of the college that would be very different from Wellesley as it presently exists. Most COWI members see the college as a collection of girls from middle class suburban homes who find neither in their education nor their living conditions at Wellesley anything that questions or contradicts the mode of life to which they are accustomed. Such an experience, according to the girls in COWI, has no educational value. As Nancy Scheibner '69, a leading member of COWI, explained at an All-College Meeting, "Wellesley must find her identity as an educational center...
That does not require altering the attitudes or composition of Wellesley's student body. "I see it as enough that the administration will act without the students," concluded Karen Williamson...
...other hand, the leaders of COWI cannot assert that they have altered Wellesley if change, in its most obvious form, is persistently resisted. Black students' demands to see themselves integrated into all aspects of life at Wellesley must be a part of any resolution calling for significant change on the campus...
...worst was not over. The dentist returned, and the patient, having taken off his glasses, could only see him dimly. "How does your mouth feel now?" the dentist asked matter-of-factly. Then without waiting for the patient's reply, he took a long dull instrument from his cabinet and, with it, gently pocked the patient's reply, he took a long dull instrument from his cabinet and, with it, gently pocked the patient's upper tooth. Feeling nothing, the patient relaxed and then, in an instant, realized the dentist was pushing harder and harder at the tooth...
...unasked questions. For example, the meaning of the civilization of mankind is five sentences; those five sentences don't describe the meaning--they are the meaning of civilization. But if we accept Vonnegut's world to work with, it gives us something all put together so we can see how everything relates to each other...