Word: strife
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Unceasing Strife...
...society. That is why we require students to take courses in literature and moral reasoning. If, by its actions as an employer, the University embodies narrow rationality and a preoccupation with the “bottom line,” it educates students into a worldview that propagates social strife and instability...
...perhaps most important is the change in attitude Gusmorino has instilled in the council, which has traditionally been known as a group characterized by internal strife and division but little power to influence campus issues...
...Sujean and I decided to run last fall the UC was facing some difficult times. Council morale was low and we were having difficulty keeping people on the UC. We were strapped for cash and we had to reduce funding for student groups. There was a lot of internal strife and frustration,” Gusmorino said in his address...
Given that the Kaprielian bill would have to overcome the lobbying strength of Harvard and other Massachusetts universities, the current system of unequal costs, unshared burdens and unceasing strife seems likely to continue. After all, there’s historical precedent—acquisitions of land by the Church continued almost unabated after 1279. Undying corporations do tend to stick around, especially ones that are already many centuries (or millennia) old. But it’s about time that the people of Massachusetts took the responsibility to preserve the local tax base out of Harvard’s dead hand...