Word: speciousness
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...What gives this little group the right to screw over everyone like this, especially if their whole line is completely specious?” Potter said of the University administration earlier this week. “My problem with what is going on is that there hasn’t been a proactive campaign mounted by HUCTW demanding an end to these layoffs and defending the people who have been laid off. Our campaign is trying to light a fire under the union to get them going on this...
...another in an attempt to determine “knowledge” from a set of facts, the women’s studies’ approach to history necessitates (per its very name) a primary focus on women. So while every history concentrator learns in tutorial to treat as specious works which approach history with, say, a gendered lens or any other agenda rather than a blank slate, women’s studies encourages its concentrators to take that very approach...
...himself, unlike our own dear Imperator, is compelled to debate and argue his rights and responsibilities with the masses, who hold his future in their hands. Narcissus has no Praetorian Guard to protect him, merely a collection of sophists who toil day and night to coin the arguments, often specious, for him to make before the city’s courts...
Harvard’s policy of secrecy has no compelling justification. The University has attempted to defend its irrational secrecy by claiming it is concerned about student privacy. But this specious argument is a red herring. The public records law in Massachusetts is as stringent as any in the nation at protecting the rights of victims of sexual assault and the privacy of individuals. Under the public records law, Harvard would be obligated to continue protecting the privacy of students, as well it should. Student privacy and openness about crime are not mutually exclusive. HUPD can provide important information about...
...hype surrounding the first Guns N' Roses tour in nearly a decade seemed specious from the start, as only one original member of the band was involved. And he was the most volatile. Axl Rose failed to appear for the tour's opening show on Nov. 7 in Vancouver, allegedly owing to travel problems. Fans--fueled by thwarted nostalgia or beer--rioted. Then Rose, after playing to some half-empty stadiums, went AWOL again, in Philadelphia on Dec. 6. Again fans rioted. Last week, without giving a specific reason, the tour promoter canceled all remaining dates. Fans so far seem...