Word: topicalism
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...need to dedicate time to furthering their careers. Although this is an understandable immediate reaction to the pressure placed by Harvard criteria, what does this mean for the striving student, the student who, despite a difficult schedule of his own, is willing to set time aside to research a topic that can potentially help his future? It is a tragedy that this is a consequence felt mostly by students...
...Cambridge, their chosen focus will be the religious lives of the University. No doubt they'll find presentations by faculty, students, chaplains and administrators interesting--perhaps reassuring, perhaps troubling, perhaps merely curious. In generations past such assemblies might have come to blows under the influence of such a topic. This weekend's musings are almost certain to be calm, though perhaps a little uncomfortable under the surface. Maybe we're more civil now--or more multi-culturally curious. Or maybe we're just more spiritually apathetic. One of the easiest ways to make the intellectual and communal commitments to each...
...practices have formed both among Radcliffe alumnae and within RUS, neither has worked extensively with the Harvard administration to examine possible short-falls in tenure procedures. After fall tenure announcements proved once again that men seem to be far more successful in this process, it is critical that this topic finally be examined closely. To be on a campus with so many illustrious figures is a great honor; to realize how few of them are women is a great disappointment. Promoting the appointment of more women as tenured faculty members is only one facet of a greater need for female...
...consider a memorial to the southern dead as an act of reconciliation. I joined this cause in 1976, on the nation's bicentennial, raised it again as art issue at the time of the University's 350th anniversary celebrations in 1986, and have written and preached on the topic ever since. To my knowledge the initiative in all of these discussions has always been taken by Harvard people of impeccable Union credentials, and they have been under-taken openly and in a spirit of reconciliation not with a wicked cause, but with young lives who once shared the ideals...
Thus were CompuServe subscribers prevented from further discourse on whatever they talk about in alt.sex.bestiality.hamster.duct-tape (which may exceed even my high squeamishness threshold). At the same time, however, they were also barred from alt.religion.sexuality (a pretty chaste topic), clari.news.sex (which redistributes wire-service stories) and alt.sex.marsha-clark (the mind reels...