Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clearly, however, this kind of career liberalism also has some serious problems. Too often we end up shutting ourselves off from the opposition and curling up in our comfortable liberal bubble. The ideologically incestuous environment to which this gives rise breeds some of the most significant weaknesses in campus liberalism, and perhaps in liberalism all over. It allows us to stop thinking about the basic principles on which we base our politics, and once we stop questioning these basic principles, we become less responsible in their application...
...reps should attend meetings and when they can't there is a system that evaluates their performance," said Burton, who emphasized that he has surpassed the requirements of a FiCom member. "The UC would be at a serious loss if it let a conflict with section prevent me from working for students...
...brief duration of the council campaign. As the situation currently stands, and has often stood in the past, those few students who vote in two weeks will merely be expressing a lukewarm preference for one candidate over the others, and not an impassioned advocacy. Even if there were serious issues at stake--which admittedly there are not-the current offering of aspiring presidents would be sufficiently dull to drown the enthusiasm of even the most committed activists...
Those considered serious contenders in the race come almost exclusively from within the council. Given the irrelevancy of that body, this makes them particularly ill-suited to win the authentic loyalty of students. Many of the candidates have learned to effectively navigate bureaucracy and lobby the administration. They should all immediately take the state civil service examine. But, they cannot boast any great success with student groups that are well-respected and have no legitimate claim to represent the mass of undergraduates. Even their posters are poorly designed...
...West himself addresses some of the criticisms of his work and his own misgivings, writing that "I have great suspicion of autobiographical writing. So much of it reeks of self-indulgence and self-absorption, yet any serious engagement with the world includes a questioning of one's self." But he firmly answers the question by stating that "A wholesale critical inventory of ourselves and our communities of struggle is neither self-indulgent autobiography nor self-righteous reminisence...