Word: classroom
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...seriously discipline the perpetrators nor invite the silenced speakers back. If students on the Right were to take a cue from students on the Left and, on the grounds that Professor Kennedy's recent remarks were offenseive and insensitive, were to disrupt his lectures or blockade him in his classroom or office, or pelt him with vegetables, there can be little doubt that the university would rush to his defense, and rightly so, in the name of academic freedom. Indeed, last year's incident at Dartmouth shows that when right-wing students dare to copy the tactics of the Left...
SUDDENLY THE classroom door flew open. The tapping of a heel was heard. Then a tune: "I'm the type of guy, who likes to write a line/Yeah, I'm a writer/Ooh, ooh, a writer I write around, 'round, 'round, 'round...
Professor Wordsworth didn't care to know. There was only room for one anti-academic-writer-type in his classroom. "What's your name...
...gift from Shad, who is stepping down to become Ambassador to the Netherlands, comes at a time of unprecedented interest in classroom ethics stimulated by the recent Wall Street insider trading scandal. The SEC Chairman's donation coincides with President Bok's efforts announced last year to create the university-wide ethics program now run by Kennedy School Professor Dennis Thompson...
...them were suspended and sent home with letters requesting that their parents meet with Greene before the students could be allowed to return. In his first semester, Greene handed out 2,000 suspensions and ordered 100 transfers. Students got the message. By the end of Greene's first year, classroom attendance had risen from 56% to 85%. With a measure of order and calm restored, Greene went to work on academics. In 1985 he canceled Redford's football season because 17 of the school's 26 players had failed to maintain a 2.0 grade average. He began a program...