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Some object to this position, arguing that increasing the admission of women to Harvard is acceptable only so long as the number of men here keeps increasing too. This viewpoint is often based on arguments that alumni contributions will fall off if it isn't adopted. But these arguments come most frequently from alumni who attribute their own sexism to all their classmates--and in the last few classes, Radcliffe graduates' pledges have topped those of their Harvard counterparts. Worse yet, this viewpoint reflects an idea that educated men are more valuable than educated women. If alumni who reject this...
...Colombia, which produces almost all the world's emeralds, the gems lie so close to the earth's surface that they have been turned up by foraging pigs. Yet from the viewpoint of the government's supposed emerald monopoly, most of the stones might as well be buried beyond reach. The real rulers of the jungle-matted minefields are the esmeralderos (emerald buccaneers); they buy and steal illegally mined stones, smuggle them out, engage in endless shootouts and wind up with most of the estimated $150 million that global sales of Colombian emeralds generate each year...
Some object to this position, arguing that increasing the admission of women to Harvard is acceptable only so long as the number of men here keeps increasing too. This viewpoint is often based on arguments that alumni contributions will fall off if it isn't adopted. But these arguments come most frequently from alumni who attribute their own sexism to all their classmates--and in the last few classes, Radcliffe graduates' pledges have topped those of their Harvard counterparts. Worse yet, this viewpoint reflects an idea that educated men are more valuable than educated women. If alumni who reject this...
...that is a product of the times or a function of my own age. Or both. Anyway, one always expects things like that to change over time: we look at things differently and, of course, they are different. We only become alarmed if things involving human behavior and viewpoint do not modify with time...
...Light and Truth-Yale's Latin motto) to protest what they see as "a monopoly of one viewpoint-leftist." The group, which sends mailings to 35,000 Yale alumni, believes that the conservative viewpoint is not sufficiently represented in the university, which should be a "free marketplace for ideas...