Word: claims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Claim: "The Council, rallying freshmen and house committees, brought about an administrative about-face by defeating an administrative plan to impose 25% randomization in some houses...
Reality: The Council jumped on the bandwagon only after more than 1200 first-year students petitioned Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 to abandon the proposed changes in the housing lottery. For the council to claim sole responsibility for the administration's reversal is preposterous...
Some Maryland educators dispute White's claim that the problem was systemic in nature...
...Frank's own request, the House Ethics Committee is investigating his involvement with Stephen L. Gobie and Gobie's disputed claim that the congressman was aware he was operating a prostitution service out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment. Frank has said he would await the ethics committee's inquiry...
...would claim that Harvard students idolize all assigned reading indiscriminately. We have a tendency to treat Poe more seriously than Stephen King, even if we like King better. A strangely convoluted snob appeal here permits us to submerge our own tastes, at least in class, so that what we like and what we don't like become hopelessly confused. When that happens it's hard for education to be very meaningful...