Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faculty senate decided not to accept ROTC's discriminatory policies. The Board of Regents approved that resolution but failed to take any action against ROTC on the University of Wisconsin campuses...
...also question why none of the three organizations formed this fall decided to be bold enough to accept members of both sexes. One of the main complaints against the final clubs is that they discriminate against almost half the student body--women. So why can't these alternative groups respond to this problem by accepting anyone, male or female, who wishes to join...
...reason that at least two of these groups claim that they cannot accept members of the opposite sex is that the national organization will not allow it. Fraternities are traditionally all-male, explains Sigma Alpha Mu member Richard M. Geyser...
...Bush Administration. The set of questions that drives U.S. policy has gone from "Is Gorbachev for real? And is he good for us?" to "Can he make it? And can we help him?" There is far more inclination in Washington today than even a few months ago to accept the best-case interpretation of what Gorbachev wants, what he represents, and what the U.S.S.R. would look like if he were to succeed in his program. At the same time, however, there is also more objective reason than before to credit the worst-case interpretation of what will happen...
...whole nation out on the streets and sweep out any government, even one declaring devotion to the people." But Gorbachev's great strength has been to take the Soviet system and its people to destinations unimagined only a few years ago. The time has come for Gorbachev to accept that there is no middle ground. As his Polish neighbors say these days, "You cannot cross a chasm in two steps...