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...group ultimately decided this year to abstain from organized political involvement after concerns arose that activism??even concerning what are seen as “obvious” Muslim issues—would devalue the range of views in the Islamic world...
...Explosions of “awareness” are a new thing. In the last serious decade of student activism??the 1960s—people tended to campaign for more concrete reforms. Curiously, this spate of “awareness” arrives at the nadir of political participation among college students in recent decades. The more “aware” we are, it seems, the less we actually...
...moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom once deemed the best goods to be those most difficult to attain—the postmodern Academy has, thanks to the e-mail petition (located at www.UBSpetition.org, if you are curious), overthrown that logic.But this activism??s meddling morality, for all of its ease, most inexcusably errs in its pride. What sort of imperialist hubris, unbefitting of our University’s commitment to moral neutrality and relativism, can claim to dictate proper political behavior to the indigenous rulers of third-world states? No conscientious...
...president sees activism??and not simply discussion—as a valuable aspect of student life...
...there weren’t people who for some reason feel these “Safe Space” stickers do anything to further tolerance. Because we’ve already established that homophobia is idiotic, we can move on to the next target—vacuous gay activism??without worrying about looking homophobic...