Word: axed
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Exhibit number two: Radcliffe College. It's undoubtedly sad, from a symbolic point of few, that this once-bastion of female education is getting the axe. But Radcliffe has been effectively absent from undergraduate life since co-education began over 20 years ago. The nostalgia that today's undergraduates feel for Radcliffe is, once again, nostalgia for an institution that never existed in our living memory...
...Stanford is strong in high-profile sports such as basketball and powerhouse in sports such as tennis, swimming and cross country. To get their hands on coveted men's basketball season tickets this year, students camped out two weeks in advance outside Maples Pavilion. And we've got the Axe the trophy given to the winner of the annual football Big Game with Berkeley...
Kugel says he knows other academics from Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania who have also had trouble with HUP editors eager to take the axe to their manuscripts...
...wake of a rash of hate crimes against gays--BGLTSA Co-Chair Adam A. Sofen '01 cited the October murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, Alabama resident Billy Jack Gaither's violent death last month after being beaten with an axe handle, and last week's attack on a gay student at Tufts College leaving an off-campus party--Hildebran and Pars-Avila discussed their professional experiences with anti-gay violence...
...Christmas is] an elaborately sustainedparental lie," Flynn said. "I urge all parents togive Santa Claus the axe...