Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Confusion and complacency dominate Harvard's minority faculty recruitment. From deans to department chairmen to the general faculty, few understand how to effectively achieve better representation, even fewer make a reasonably active effort to address the issue, and no one has a University-wide, systemic program necessary to successfully do so," the report says...
...even believes that foreign policy activism, protesting divestment or U.S. policy in Central America, has become a burnt-out case. "There comes a time when you say, `what is just one more protest going to do?'" she says. In Central American and divestment politics, she says students cannot understand all the issues at stake, and that pressuring governments can be ineffective and frustrating...
...would seem more productive to understand the great university--say Harvard--as more of a democratizing than a democratic institution. There, ideally, are brought together peoples of all different ethnic, religious, racial and class backgrounds dedicated to what must be non-democratic principles: the pursuit of dispassionate truths and a healthy (and critical) respect for traditions and authorities that have earned our attention. Most will not stay on after their four years here, and therein lies the university's annual gift to the public world ever since enrollments opened up after World War II: a democratized, de-aristocricized corps...
...made friends and won valuable prizes atThe Crimson. But the atmosphere andattitude of the place, Which I soaked up andspewed back out, began to feel more and moreempty. In trying to make sense of this emptiness,I think I have come to understand--if notreconcile--the disparate tendencies within me, theconservative and the liberal the college studentand the homeboy...
Such a switch would be too confusing for the audience to understand...