Word: unfair
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...route a percentage of revenue from student loans back to the schools, with the funds often explicitly directed into financial-aid coffers. Congress and at least two states are looking into these inducements, which New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo calls "kickbacks"--a label that seems a tad unfair if the money helps cash-strapped students rather than enrich officials. But with the spotlight now on student loans, critics are clamoring to reform what has become an $85 billion industry...
...familiar with it. Furthermore, claiming the students celebrating Holi were emulating Krishna personalizes their relationship with the deities perhaps one degree too much. The students celebrating Holi last Saturday were not necessarily trying to emulate Hindu deities, although many sought to honor them. Similarly, it would be unfair to the students of other faiths in attendance to claim they celebrated Holi in order to re-enact Hindu myths. Even for many Hindus, throwing colors at Holi has little connection to religious figures, and instead represents the coming of spring. We understand that covering religious events is challenging, and we would...
There are some good, and some spurious, reasons to think that Harvard really doesn’t give a whit about its undergraduates. For my money, though, the most convincing example is the continuation of an outdated, expensive, and time-consuming system of thesis distribution that places an unfair burden on students, and requires them to pay money in order to do more work...
...course, assessing Imus' show is a subjective judgment, and setting these boundaries is as much an aesthetic call as a moral one. It's arbitrary, nebulous and, yes, unfair. Who doesn't have a list of artists or leaders whose sins they rationalize: Elvis Costello for calling Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger," Eminem for peppering his lyrics with "faggot," Jesse Jackson for "Hymietown," D.W. Griffith for lionizing the Klan or T.S. Eliot for maligning Jews...
...Godelia, a sharp dresser partial to emphatic statements and enthusiastic hand gestures, insists he has been the target of unfair characterizations. Yesterday, he says, a Law School official took him out of lecture for Government 1092, “The Past and Future of the Left,” and told him he would not be able to attend any longer...