Word: upholding
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...goodness that an undergraduate community dedicated to a rigorous education and a moral responsibility can achieve. We believe in the power of democracy not simply as a balance of group interests but as a mechanism of fostering community. We believe that the council's purpose should be to uphold these beliefs, to fight for student concerns within the present system and to foster a future community which does not treat undergraduates as its Third Estate...
...embarrassment he believed he had brought on the Navy, his institution, his anchor, his family. Mike Boorda, like most of the senior officers I have known in our military services, would have felt himself the steward of his service's honor and concluded that his sacrifice would uphold it. For a man to have placed a higher importance on upholding an unreachable standard of accountability than on his own survival expresses an ethic that, however misguided, ought to be respected...
...officers of the Harvard University Police Department are, like any other officers, sworn to uphold the law. Whenever possible they give the benefit of the doubt to Harvard students, and rarely do they make arrests unless safety or property is threatened. They are concerned primarily with our welfare, and their recent actions betray no other motive. --Marco B. Simons '97 Director, Safety Walk Member, Harvard College Security Committee Chair, HRUC Student Affairs Committee
...wary about divulging my opinions to a publication as rife with the veiled sexism of the establishment that this one seems to be. Harking back to a time when only men were admitted to Harvard, the name of The Crimson seems to uphold the patriarchy implicit in the establishment. But friends assure me that the newspaper has no ill feelings, and with the hope that my words will change your minds and your name (The Harvard Crimchild has a nice ring to it), I present to you my womanifesto...
...nursing-home costs. Unscrupulous heirs could take advantage of a law legalizing euthanasia to accelerate their inheritance. How fitting if the generation that ushered in these changes became the first to succumb to them on a grand scale. Our fragile civilization is grounded on Judeo-Christian ethics, which uphold the sanctity of human life. These we now recklessly abandon at our peril. MARY FRANCES DOUCEDAME Thousand Oaks, California...