Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the university's interim president, Claire Fagin, attempted to bury the controversy by dumping the code. Under the school's new policy, which will be completed by June, "community standards of conduct" and "informal conflict resolution" will govern disputes. Fagin shrugs off criticism that the new policy remains vague and opens the door for incorrectness. "If everybody thinks you're doing something slightly off in a highly emotional situation like this, then maybe you're doing something exactly right," she says. "In any case, it can't be worse...
...labor's lobbying tactics against lawmakers who support the free-trade agreement. Those ugly terms, which evoke old stereotypes of spaghetti-sucking Mob bosses and pistol-blazing hitmen, infuriated Ronald Carey, the leader of the 1.4 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He demanded that Clinton apologize for using "code words" that are "an insult to every working man and woman in America...
...student groups have formed this fall on the Penn campus to respond to the revision of the code and otherissues of free speech at the university...
...There's no such thing as a right not to beinsulted," Debicella said, referring to a clausein the code...
...other students formed the Human RightsLeague to voice support for Section II becausethey believe the code will help secure students'"human right...to be treated with dignity andrespect," according to flyers posted by members...