Word: cancelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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None of this changes the reality that funding for student groups, especially in categories not covered by multiple grant sources, is very tight on this campus. In my former tenure on the council's grants committee, I saw student leaders suspend publications, cancel events, contribute unreasonable personal funds and even take out jobs to deal with funding shortages. New sources of money for student groups must be found. STEPHEN E. WEINBERG '99 Undergraduate Council Director of Student Group Information Resources March...
...textbooks are to be seen and all is ominously silent. With all eyes focusing on the television screen, tension builds as the group anxiously awaits the opening theme song of their favorite nighttime soap. Bound by their loyalty to Fox soaps, students forget their daily differences, neglect important assignments, cancel dates, and sit through 15 minutes of commercials dedicated to acne wash, tampons, and shampoo...
When then Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrahms threatened to cancel a planned speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government because the school had invited Robert White, a liberal former U.S. ambassador to El Savador to balance the panel, Kennedy publicly threw his support behind White...
...Delay after delay left the athletes fractious, and fans who had traveled from distant islands to watch the Games found themselves standing in strong winter monsoons. The Olympic Village waited and waited to see Paul Kariya, the Canadian hockey star of Japanese descent, arrive, and finally he had to cancel too, because of a concussion...
...truth, I do think this latter claim is more accurate. But even assuming the safety effects cancel out, there are still great reasons for keycard access. It would increase a sense of campus-wide community. Which upperclass student does not recall with great fondness the days of being a first-year, popping in to visit friends and vice versa? The result of restricted access is the relegation of socialization to electronically pre-arranged encounters. Moreover, it is simply more convenient. We are afraid to say this because we think it makes us seem selfish or reckless, but we shouldn...