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...political correctness" tends to efface individual and personal differences, liberal arguments for multiculturalism have too often emphasized rhetorical strategies that do not translate into substantive reconfigurations of power. As Susan Faludi `81 wrote in The New York Times Magazine this weekend, the writer must "[assert] herself from behind the veil of the printed page." Faludi, a former managing editor of The Crimson and author of Backlash, was calling for public speech that actually touches people and that forces us into the public. As writers, as journalists, such a call might also apply to writing; it might demand that we acknowledge...
...protect the children from the stigma of being branded as criminals, the proceedings of juvenile courts are hidden behind a veil of confidentiality. In an effort to show the strains on the system, a group of TIME correspondents was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore court. The identities of the children and their parents have been changed, but the stories are true, and they are typical...
...fact that the ad we received chose to veil its message does not make it any more appropriate for our printing press. Simply put: We do not print just anything, and we do not intend to prostitute this newspaper to "disseminate the good news" of lies and hatred. There may be borderline cases for this rule, but this ad was not one of them...
...would like to urge those internal to our faith to discussion of those matters without condemnations. This would be a simple recognition of our finitude and the hidden veil of God's revelation. Some would say that veil does not exist. God speaks absolutely and clearly. I exhort a return to the Bible as a whole and a reading of its own recognition of our needs for humble recognition of our finitude, even as we struggle together to live one another and be faithful to what...
...what's wrong with democracy anyway? Isn't this what students are always asking for--a little debate? Of course, public discourse can only be beneficial for the community as a whole. But in this case, the call for discussion seems to be a thin veil--part of a larger unwillingness to follow through on an obligation that the Faculty Council has already stated: the obligation to cut all ties to ROTC unless the military ends its discriminatory practices...