Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activist community is not taking this lying down. It is, I am happy to report, taking a unified moral position in opposition to something more important than whether the Undergraduate Council (a body possessing hypothetical power) should ask the faculty and administration (which will hypothetically listen to the council) to consider the (hypothetical) return to campus of the Reserve Officers Training Corp (which doesn't want to return anyway...
...handbag and takes out a small transistor radio. She carefully places it on the pine box of her daughter-in-law, in the grave that is the dead bride's new home. "What can it hurt?" she says, looking daggers at the stiff-burner. "Maybe they'll want to listen to some music...
...There are two phones in the room. The 11 counselors who staff the hotline Sunday through Thursday use those phones to respond to calls from people concerned about eating problems. People who call to talk about the disorders, to ask questions about body images, to sob while the counselors listen...
...Nobody wants to be judged--nobody," she says. "We don't judge. We just listen to them, and that in itself is a big thing...
...refusal to recognize competing voices and claims. But more important, it has seen an number of different groups--dissenting overseers, angry professors, protesting students--calling the University on its insensitivity and intolerance of new views. We welcome these new challenges as possible means of forcing the administration to listen and respond...