Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Undergraduate Council, which has not hesitated to jut its moral yardstick into national issues such as police brutality, has not issued any kind of statement regarding this conflict. The council, indeed the school, is quick to pass resolutions of sentiment condemning contentious issues like homophobia. And it is quick to sponsor panels on difficult questions like diversity. But the moment the campus actually could use a body to provide a forum for free discussion, the council doesn't say a word...
...event have informed me that the lack of press at the discussion facilitated "open dialogue." The assurance that what was said would not leave the room certainly made things more comfortable for the 30 to 40 lucky participants. However, the secrecy of the dialogue only reinforced the prevailing sentiment that this issue can only be confronted privately...
...hundreds of students are turned away from Visual and Environmental Science (VES) classes not necessarily because of the courses' competitive nature, but more accurately because of the lack of resources allotted to the department. More devastating than the University's maldistribution of money and space, however, is the underlying sentiment among undergraduates that VES does not fit in with the Harvard academic model. Harvard ignorantly writes off VES classes as flaky, insignificant guts, VES concentrators as angst-ridden, black-clad and pretentious bohemians and VES degrees as a wasted education...
Wednesday's article mentions Jews who feared that their relative sympathy for the Palestinian cause was mistaken as anti-Israeli sentiment. Unfortunately, the article makes the same mistake by equating support for Israel with lack of sympathy for Palestinians...
...course. Gore, introduced by Smith's great-grandson, joked that "Your great-grandfather was my favorite kind of governor: the kind who ran for president and lost." (So, Al, things are fine with Bill, then?) Bush cracked that Smith's campaign, which imploded in a haze of anti-Catholic sentiment, "gives me hope that in America it's still not possible for a fellow named Al to be the commander-in-chief...