Word: paternalisme
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Threatening to punish us if we don't take our exams smacks of paternalism that is, or should be, anachronistic. Prohibiting indiscriminate exam make-ups was probably of value when Harvard College was devoted to squeezing the rudiments of a liberal arts education into the minds of the sons of...
The anger is not difficult to explain. The dream of equality has been deferred too long, and Americans, both white and black, are paying in the late '60s for the omissions of the past. For there is another side to the glowing figures of black advancement. Negroes are still...
An equally important impediment to the effectiveness of the COH is its age. The members are basically out of touch with the present, our present. Once again, parietals provides insight to the workings of the Committee. Not only were its views contrary to the students', but they also conflicted with...
On Probation. While extreme, the problems are not unique. They reflect the sharp rise in medical costs and the changing makeup of the nation's cities. In Boston's case, as the middle-class Irish drifted to the suburbs, Curley-style paternalism faded. The hospital was flooded with...
"Maybe what we're doing in Roxbury smacks a little too much of white paternalism," she says now. "And if the blacks don't want me, I guess that's O.K. But seeing so many white people who just don't care is also frustrating?and it's inexcusable." She...