Word: student
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Verba, the student of the Harvardbureaucracy, cedes the point. "I said that wasabsolutely true, that there was no way in whichyou can really force people to do things in asystem such as ours," Verba says...
...were born in the heat of student protest, when youths spouted visions of changing the world and opening society; now youth are more likely to accept the status quo. But, in a way every student now takes for granted what used to be the highest of goals--women's rights, civil rights and our nation at peace. Even the most traditional of students in the Class of 1989 have made friends with students of different ethnicities, races, religions and sexual preferences...
...most didn't hear. Most didn't care. Many left Harvard for far-off states and commitments, no longer concerned with a diverse faculty or a student say in University policy. Others sank into harried East Coast jobs, working at the office well past nine at night, shielded by layers of secretaries. For almost all, Harvard was reduced to a line on a resume, a loan to repay, an annual fundraising plea, some drunken anecdotes, a few bad memories...
...this pattern of outrage and action whichWatson has replayed again and again. As anundergraduate at the State University of New Yorkat Oswego. As a graduate student in Black studiesat Cornell. As an administrator at Harvard...
From a comparative perspective, this Australian professor could observe what many of us often miss: that the student body, like the majority of Americans, is essentially anti-intellectual in nature. It's disheartening to watch what could be America's greatest collection of raw intellectual talent descend into choosing their courses by exam date and lecture time...