Word: selfishnesses
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...seniors do, and should, obsess about their theses. Our ability to place as much importance as we do every decision we make and every paper we write is one of the indulgences college allows. And this indulgence can be seen in most aspects of college life. College students are selfish, caught up in their lives and usually their lives only, because they can be; our activities (even our altruistic ones) primarily serve us: they help us grow and develop our conceptions of the good life. And they don't matter too much in the grand scheme of things. Students...
When I asked Dean of the College and McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis '68 whether or not he thought college was an essentially selfish period, he answered with a resounding...
...learning these values does not preclude students from being selfish as well. It is, in fact, the institutional structure that enables students to concentrate on themselves. To the same question I asked Dean Lewis about whether or not college was a selfish period, Henry Rubin, a lecturer on social studies, responded, "Most definitely. [College] is one of the last times that you get the kind of intensive institutional support for guiding you through life choices that will matter to your life chances...Most of all, you haven't yet made the kinds of decisions that `lock' you into any particular...
...socialized to view sex? Do we see it as parallel to human potential, associated with elation, communion, violence, intimacy, connection, empathy, indifference, compassion and cruelty? Or is sex thought of one-dimensionally, as an estranged use of another's body, a selfish act void of communication and reciprocation? Sex without discussion rarely allows for real consent, real sharing or, in other words, real intercourse...
...International Monetary Fund has so far been unable to sway Suharto from his plan, which would have dire repercussions throughout Asia. A currency collapse in Indonesia would force devaluations in Malaysia, Singapore and perhaps even China and Hong Kong. With a single selfish action, Suharto could send the entire region back into meltdown...