Word: partisans
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Professors have turned to overtly partisan stances on the war. Students, viewing heated partisan positions as divisive, have mostly evaded them...
...students at the Kennedy School for Government (KSG) against the selection of Mass. Gov. W. Mitt Romney as commencement speaker raises valid issues of student involvement in commencement day activities. But the petition’s demand—that Romney should not speak—is simply a partisan effort against a conservative leader that should not influence the administration to change this year’s speaker...
...this year, the administration should ignore the clearly partisan petition against the Governor. Started by a staffer for former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, one of Romney’s democratic opponents, the petition is no more than liberal frustration over a conservative choice. Students at the KSG, trained to recognize the workings of the political process, should know better than to cave to such partisan politics and appreciate hearing from a high-profile state leader, regardless of his political stance...
Marglin drafted the proposal for the new course earlier this spring out of a desire to offer students what he said would be a more critical and less partisan alternative to Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics?...
While the petition’s authors claimed that their opposition was not partisan, they criticized Romney’s record in office...