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...Slippery Slope?...
Staying off the ‘Slippery Slope?...
...group,” but there are many such groups that could be the focus of one’s undergraduate years. Which groups are most “important,” and which should get their concentrations first? The fear isn’t of a slippery slope??that one day, the truly objectionable groups might be let in—but that there would be no way for the University to allocate its limited resources of money, time, and scholarly effort...
...university to women, poor people and people of color over the last hundred years. But the opening of the university to new fields of study has been more contentious: in this context, the ideology of diversity gives way to arguments about the dangers of the “slippery slope??: If we can integrate queer studies, Caribbean studies, south Asian studies, or Native American studies into the curriculum, then what will be next? This line of reasoning echoes anti-immigration arguments in troubling ways. Like such arguments, it claims to be about others who have not yet arrived...
...only produce 3.2 billion barrels, a strikingly conservative and low-end estimate. Even according to those statistics, however, ANWR would still be the second largest field ever discovered in the United States, second only to Prudhoe Bay. (Prudhoe Bay, though, is hardly a polluted oil field because the North Slope??s petroleum industry is the cleanest, most technologically advanced and most heavily regulated in the world...