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...ethnic studies or to diversifying its faculty. The new position in English is not even a tenured one, but instead a junior faculty position. Whoever fills the position one year may be gone the next. The position seems intended more to mollify the growing cry for diversity. However, token concessions will simply...
Maybe you do a token run once in a while or count running up the stairs to your class as your daily exercise, but as you become softer and softer, you're realizing that things have got to change before you become a marshmallow...
...would be extremely concerned if [Harvard] felt that the inclusion of one token representative would sufficiently cover the need for increased attention toward Ethnic Studies and/or Asian American Studies," she said...
...does some good things, but it's just a token," Stevenson said. "It's not given as much power of the purse as other college undergraduate councils...
Balancing the humor is plenty of heart-pounding action and suspense--the Indiana Jones survival tactics, sprays of gunfire, sharp blows and the heavy thud of falling bodies. And of course, the token patriotic fervor of America versus foreign terrorists, as Marshall, unable to cut the red, white and blue wires, correctly chooses the yellow and green...