We can come to terms with meaningful disagreements without making presumptions of guilt. Even better would be to include students in the presentation, as in the Williams College Debate Union events a decade ago. Zach was keen enough to distinguish between words and actions purposely hurtful and those meant without malice; unfortunately however, Zach’s mother often would confront school officials at his first (private) school over the latter, and this led to Zach’s social ostracism.I did think Wood could have expanded upon the experience at his second private institution, the Roeper School as his memory of it is something sorely needed in this era of group-think:“There’s this big black kid with an Afro,” Zach relates to his father. One of us would write a five to seven-page paper, the other a two-page critique. Embracing a diversity of opinions and a multiformity of intuitions is essential to a pluralistic society. We also should not settle for using the term “racist,” “sexist,” or “homophobic” as an excuse to dismiss or quarantine any idea that is felt to be deeply offensive. After one student activist shouted “f— you!” at the speaker, an administrator seemed to affirm the heckler’s veto, signaling to me with a timeout gesture that it was time to end the event. Please contact the form owner to correct this issue. I am proud of Zach and of Uncomfortable Learning and of Williams for bringing him to campus.2) The critics of Zach/UL (especially Professor Sam Crane) should be asked to answer the question: Is Williams a better college for hosting speakers like Murray?

My experience has taught me that pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is a myth: Achieving social mobility requires far more than will and ability.

Surgical and concentrated in print; Professor Marcus argued energetically and good-naturedly in person. Please contact the form owner to correct this issue.In the wake of Williams College President Adam Falk’s decision to forbid writer John Derbyshire from coming to campusat the invitation of the student-run “Uncomfortable Learning” speaker series, FIRE reached out to the program’s president, sophomore Zachary R. Wood, and invited him to share his thoughts with readers of In my time at Williams, President Falk has been an analytic and deliberative leader. Murray may be right and he may be wrong but there is no doubt he is one of the most important social scientists of the last 50 years. This past Friday, I met with the Black Student Union and attendant students of color to gain a better understanding of the range of opinions on the issue. After all, he still believes Bill Russell is the greatest basketball player of all-time. Zachary Wood will appear at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Evanston Township High School, 1600 Dodge Ave. Okay, then do it. And our readers always enjoy reading the arguments of passionate Williams students.Currently browsing posts filed under "Zachary Wood ’18" Exactly right. They often came to without having eaten and wearing the same dirty clothes from the day before.” They got into fights, picked on those (like Zach) who were good students, and the school’s teachers, who “worked hard,” always “seemed exhausted.” In fact, part of that “exhaustion” was the catalyst for Wood’s move to private education: A teacher’s note on one of his report cards said he was “disruptive” in class for the grave offense of … The move to exclusive private education led to Wood having to morph back and forth into characters suited for two worlds: one suited for his tough Detroit (and later) Washington DC neighborhoods, and the other for an atmosphere of (white) wealth and privilege. It is fair to say that exceedingly few institutions of higher education are racism free.

Although it’s true that students can “see what [she] was going to say,” how many students is she really going to reach that way. On February 11, 2019, he was re-signed to a one-year contract.

If most Chinese are “racist” — by the definition that Most famous current Williams undergraduate? You do a disservice to your fellow students by inviting a controversy about ideas than preventing them from being aired.

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