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...talented and dedicated junior faculty alongside five senior members teaching in American fields. We are uniquely strong in American foreign policy and diplomacy. What is the problem!? Why don't you, in any case help us persuade first-years and concentrators what their counterparts at Princeton, Amherst, Berkeley, etc., have never forgotten: that history is a subject you can enter anywhere, any time...
...illness, it has much in common with millions of other cases: I and most other sufferers have never even remotely verged on any derangement, psychosis, hallucinations, paranoia, catatonia, multiple personalities or even wide mood-swings (the preceding symptoms are associated with a variety of forms of schizophrenia, manic-depression, etc.). Further, I know for my own case through many experiences over decades that I possess more resilience, resourcefulness, clear judgment and tolerance of stress in difficult situations (including several near-death events) than most "healthy" persons can imagine having...
...number of the mentally ill may need to take time away from a school or job to get well, pursue new options, change focus, etc. (and many people with no mental illness may also pursue such paths as well). One of the best things to happen in recent years is the greater tolerance and affirmation of such varied life options: The old mentality that life is a treadmill of college, professional school, job, without any pause or variation, is fading. Yet the use of pejorative expressions such as "drop-out" continues...
...takes enormous resilience, determination and courage (both for the patient and for people closet to her) in order to seek obtain and carry through on treatments; there are often false starts (unhelpful medications, useless therapists, etc.) and tough times ahead before improvement occurs...
Because everything's relative. (Or, philosophical skepticism in more academic circles.) This is the most common argument driving both multiculturalism and political correctness. It says: If you're intolerant of different beliefs and lifestyles, you're not only being arrogant (e.g. ethnocentric, phallocentric, etc.) in thinking that your values are the only right ones--you're also philosophically wrong to think that any conviction or lifestyle can be proven rationally to be correct, true, best or even better. No one is right, wrong, or closer or farther from the truth. Ergo, we should all be tolerant...