Word: supportive
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...take the ROTC debate last spring. Among members of ARAC, for example, support for the mere existence of the military was wrong. The questions of the necessity of the military and of the possibility that Harvard students could change it from within were simply irrelevant. Many of the PC ideologues dismissed the military as homophobic, sexist, racist, classist, anti-intellectual and--God Forbid!--violent. Since the military is so clearly evil, we should not pay the least attention to its supporters...
Another example of the alienation of the unconverted occured during the ROTC debate last spring. At an anti-ROTC rally, a member of ARAC read a vicious ad hominem poem attacking a council member for her support of ROTC. The PC are kidding themselves if they think they can persuade the other side by scaring them or slandering them...
Freshman Marty Clark's match against the president's son looked like it was going the other way at first. With security forces turning away every would-be spectator except his parents and sister, Clark's support was lacking...
...even if the Overseers were to support a newdivestment plan, it is unclear what influence theywould have on the seven-member HarvardCorporation--which has final say on all matters ofUniversity policy...
...tests will be required to meet with a counselor. When chemical dependency is found, the culprit must enter a treatment program, and faces suspension from the team. The athlete can rejoin the squad after 30 days if he or she then tests clean. The Flossmoor plan has the support of a federal-appeals-court decision in a similar case last year as well as of 70% of the students surveyed at the school -- although nearly half of them think it is a violation of their rights...