Word: willingness
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The government announced Thursday that it was willing to talk with students about their demands for greater freedom. But student leaders rejected the government's stipulation that talks be conducted through official student groups.
Harvard's attitude is a condescending and troubling one. In effect, it says to MIT that "we're too high and mighty to sully ourselves with such a vile institution as ROTC, but as long you're willing to prostitute yourself, we'll send our ROTC students over to you...
THIS is a useful paradigm through which to view the Undergraduate Council's decision last Sunday to bring ROTC back to campus. This vote attests to what all the doomsayers were saying about our generation, what few college liberals are willing to admit.
Income diversity at Harvard does not mean compartmentalizing low-income students into the military--it means mixing rich and poor and getting to understand each other. Why are you so willing to perpetuate a system that sends people into the military based on their family's income?
But such allegations do more than illegitimately condemn Jackson; they also undermine the importance of the Holocaust. Himmelfarb, for example, was willing to invoke the slaughter of six million Jews to improve the prospects for his political party. I believe others use Holocaust imagery against Jackson to vent racist attitudes...