Word: chancellor
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...Great Depression circled the globe, democracy and capitalism were everywhere in retreat. The propaganda of the day proclaimed that the choice was one of two extremes--fascism or communism. In Germany, economic collapse led to the triumph of the Nazi party and the installation of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor; in Italy, Benito Mussolini assumed dictatorial power with an ideology called Fascism; in the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin and the communist ideology held sway...
...sweeping indictment of the entire system." Still, the temptation to cheat seems to be growing among teachers, who are being held accountable if their students don't measure up. "Anytime you have this kind of mounting pressure about getting children to a standard," says New York City's school chancellor, Rudy Crew, "it shouldn't come as any wonder that there are going to be people who will find a creative way of cheating." Crew argues that such incidents do not mean the tests should be abandoned, though others disagree. "The country has gone test crazy," says Robert Schaeffer...
Students learned about the retraction today through e-mail messages from administrators and campus news sources. Chancellor David Scott issued a press release Wednesday with the details of the retraction...
...Chancellor David Scott defended Vanin in a university-wide memo circulated yesterday, noting that Vanin's staff attended the meetings. At the time, Vanin "continued to work to provide support to those dealing with the sudden death of a fellow student" in an unrelated case...
University spokespersons emphasized that all actions implemented were temporary. Pitoniak said that the measures outlined by Chancellor Scott were only guaranteed until the crisis ends, at which point "everything will be reassessed...