Word: speakes
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...Both Perspective and The Crimson have honestly portrayed rape as a serious and existing crime on the Harvard campus. Unfortunately, it is a crime that carries a stigma of being unmentionable. There undoubtedly exist other victims of sexual violence within the community who have chosen not to speak, either publicly or privately, about their experiences...
Both Perspective and The Crimson have honestly portrayed rape as a serious and existing crime on the Harvard campus. Unfortunately, it is a crime that carries a stigma of being unmentionable. There undoubtedly exist other victims of sexual violence within the community who have chosen not to speak, either publicly or privately, about their experiences...
...Diversity-speak is seductive, but its "happy multiculturalism" often anaesthetizes the more dangerous implications of a plural society and overlooks the sly maneuvers of a University administration that is more concerned with appearances than with addressing substantial minority (and non-minority) student concerns. At the risk of offending some of the very people whose interests we hope to support, we'd like to offer a new interpretation of Cultural Rhythms...
...Second, the Foundation's diversity-speak seems designed to protect the University from having to address difficult issues. The whole show kicks off with Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, describing how the show represents the "full spectrum" of Harvard students...
...their youth exempts them from personal responsibility. Explanations we give for their poverty sound very common-sensical as a result: They are homeless because there is no affordable housing in Boston. They are poor because there are no jobs for their parents. They fail school because they do not speak English...