Word: tokenisms
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...Kurfess were to draw 40% or more of the vote, Rhodes could be in serious trouble against the Democratic candidate, almost certain to be Lieutenant Governor Richard Celeste, 40. A handsome and aggressive campaigner, Celeste is a Rhodes scholar and former Peace Corps volunteer who faces only token primary opposition...
Granted, the center does good work--but does it do enough good work? Virtually the only program at Harvard seeking to improve teaching skills, the center has been called a mere token, something Harvard can proudly point to when critics accuse her of harboring a single-minded passion for research. Krupnick explains that the center is small because administrators were initially skeptical about the experiment. "They were waiting to see if it would just be a trendy thing that would fall on its face," she says...
...broader scale, the federal government should cease all involvement in the Mexican government's herbicide war on the nation's marijuana fields. The U.S. State Department has promised to produce an environmental impact statement detailing the effects of Mexico's "drug-eradication" program on the United States; such token action remains an insufficient response to a growing problem affecting millions of marijuana users in this country. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) filed a lawsuit last March 13 seeking an injunction to halt the herbicide spraying program pending the publication of the environmental impact statement...
...AFTER TOKEN student consultation, and with surprisingly little debate, the Faculty passed the Core Curriculum plan by a three-to-one margin last week. Core opponents condemned the plan as a restrictive infringement on student choice. But many are withholding criticism until the final details are worked out. Indeed, the proposal as it now stands is vague and tentative, and the Standing Committees on the Core, to be formed over the summer, will have considerable power to shape the final character of the plan. To ensure that the proposal does not bear out its opponents' worst fears, the committees will...
...present regime will never willingly abandon apartheid or any institution necessary for its maintenance. In the six years I have followed this issue, the South African government has, on many occasions, publicly insisted that it will never abandon apartheid. How can we expect to change, by good examples and token adjustments, a society that claims it will go down fighting rather than willingly institute change? In light of these considerations, I feel that the assumption underlying the Sullivan principles--that change can come through "the power of persuasion" and "good examples"--is akin to the argument that one could convince...