Word: attempting
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...experience shows that while students can attempt to reduce safety risks, the University must also make this campus safer. Harvard's streets and pathways need to be lit brightly at night. Currently, the campus is riddled with poorly lit areas, and criminals can exploit this situation and lurk undetected in the shadows. Installing more street-lights is not a costly improvement--there is no excuse for the University not to improve campus lighting immediately. This situation is even more disturbing given the fact that temporary lighting is installed in the Yard during Commencement week to keep chairs in Tercentenary Theatre...
...considered politically correct at the White House to complain about the economy; they see this defense of the status quo as dangerous. At a Monday-night meeting last week, top Labor Department officials and other liberal Democratic operatives grumbled that the White House was blocking any attempt by Labor Secretary Robert Reich to give some voice to workers' complaints about job losses and declining incomes. "They think it's morning in America over there," said an aide to Representative Richard Gephardt. "But most Americans don't even know what time it is because they are working so hard...
...Last week a 19-year-old white volunteer fireman was charged with the Tyler arson. So far, he has not been linked to any group or any other church fires. But Wendell Paris, a veteran civil rights organizer, observes, "I am convinced these fires are part of a deliberate attempt to retard the progress black people have been making...
Although it is nice to know that the College is making some attempt to address and reformulate procedures concerning race relations at this school, I see the handbook as some sort of self-congratulatory compilation to give administrators a hard copy of their "efforts...
...your article about the Utah school board that banned all non-academic clubs in an attempt to prevent a gay-straight student alliance (News Brief, Feb. 22, 1996), a student named Brett Shields is quoted as saying, "Everyone suffers because of the gays." Yet, it seems so clear that students are losing extracurricular activities not because of a group of students who want to start a club which people are free to join as they may, but because of the prejudice of the school board and community...