Word: towards
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Students and Faculty members on the committee expressed concern about a growing trend toward the use of reading period as a time for writing papers or completing projects rather than studying...
...notion is that gays who fail to line up behind the dogmas of queer activism are somehow "sellouts"--internalized homophobes (whether they realize it or not) who betray themselves and others for material gain. The truth of the matter is that for many of us who are naturally inclined toward moderation, radical politics are simply distasteful. We are not closeting ourselves and we are not internalized homophobes. We merely have open minds, pragmatic methods and universal ideals...
...couple as a sinister reinforcement of the dominant culture of heterosexism aimed at marginalizing queers. Taken at face value, they're simply expressions of popular culture, where "popular" refers to dominance within the entire population. That many gays see the majoritarian forces that shape this culture as being hostile toward them is certainly interesting, but not necessarily justified, especially considering how popular culture is manufactured. I might as well complain as a Jew that the Christmas shopping season is perpetuated by the prejudice, ignorance and intolerance of Madison Avenue and San Francisco advertising executives...
More students voted in last week's Great Grape Referendum than in last year's Undergraduate Council presidential and vice-presidential elections, 50 percent to 43 percent. Whether to take this as an indication of greater student ardor over grapes or greater apathy toward the council is up for debate...
...politics. This, I know is a hard sell. Anxious to make their impact on America's destiny, these students have come here for serious study with top-flight scholars. They push themselves hard in order to graduate with outstanding educational achievements and impressive resumes. Committed to scholarship, their attitude toward politics falls somewhere between disdain and indifference. Even at the Kennedy School of Government many students think that policy expertise is a fungible commodity with political experience. They are not interested in learning the essential political road maps, and like students at other elite campuses, too many Harvard students want...