Word: calling
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When newly appointed Dartmouth College President James Wright announced two weeks ago that his institution would end its long Greek tradition, he sent a clarion call through the nation's universities. Premised on the noble goals of improving residential life and reducing alcohol abuse, this decision furthers a disturbing trend of social engineering prevailing among educational administrators...
...speculative plans of the potential buyer, Frank Fodera, call for an apartment building which would still preserve the "historical" exterior--as its lobby. When those plans were revealed in late January, "Save the Chapel" signs went up in church windows and a bevy of petitions, meetings and lawsuits sprung out of the surrounding community...
...League presidents will hold a conference call tomorrow afternoon to address sweatshop policy. That conference call, along with yesterday's deadline, makes today's rally particularly timely for PSLM and their demands, McKean said...
...Observers brand Newseum list arbitrary, pointless exercise, decry glut of similar end-of-century rankings, call Newseum name queer, silly
...School, in Kansas City, Mo.: "Anybody who wears jeans that are not Levi or Lee is a nerd, a creep, a wonk, and walks like a duck." What binds Weyrich and me together, I realized, is that we believe in an absolute standard of behavior, what used to be called the eternal verities; we deplore what he would probably call relativist morals and I would call a lot of people being willing to go around dressed like dorks...