Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schools have a number of things in common," Orleans says. "All of us use the alumni schools quite heavily. The opportunity is provided by NCAA rules to bring students on campus. Schools vary and teams vary on the way they organize their visits, but we all do the big things pretty similarly...
...rejects simple characterization of his own work, he also refuses to accept the common vision of the world as divided into neat little oppositional packages like male/female, black/white, good/bad. While this attitude might be expected to result in nihilism, Reed's refusal to compartmentalize offers the possibility of an alternative system of connections not recognized by current society...
While decisions would accrue to become a sort of common law, students would have no idea whatsoever of the community's rules. But the body would be free to hand down unjust decisions and later cite them in support of other unjust decisions...
...content to leave bad enough alone, Cambridge bureaucrats also decided to outlaw the Cambridge Common shuttle stop, saying it too illegally blocked traffic...
...seen since the late 1960s. During the past few months, street demonstrations in France, Spain, Mexico, China, South Korea and elsewhere have ended a period of relative quiet on many campuses. While student complaints and causes are hardly identical, they are similar enough to reveal at least some common threads: dissatisfaction with government policies on access to higher education, on economic opportunity and on the right to dissent...