Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dean of the Graduate School of Education Patricia A. Graham likens the current pseudofrenzy to the American reaction to the Launching of the Sputnik satellite by the Soviets in 1957. That event, considered the formal beginning of the superpower "space race," raised concern that America's school, were not doing their job in producing technology whizzes who could rival the Soviets...
...American public displayed its usual apathy to the crisis until NBC news ran some footage of dying Africans, at least the people were moved by real emotions of horror, pity, and even guilt USA for Africa peddles the feel-good approach to humanitarianism, turning an act of human concern into the moral equivalent of mouthwash...
University spokesman Frederick H. Knubel said Sovern decided to meet the group "out of concern for the students." In addition to the five who abstained from solid food through yesterday, two students stopped their fast over the weekend when they were hospitalized for dehydration...
...events of last Thursday and Friday presented a more than appropriate opportunity for Bok to demonstrate just such concern. Having found time earlier this month to publicize his views on a Congressional fight over sanctions against South Africa, B should have set aside some time to address the divestiture battle being played out on his own campus last week. But Bok avoided first the University- conference following the rally and, more important, the peaceful vigil outside his office from Thursday through Friday afternoon-avoiding his office entirely for those two days. Those protesters had explicitly disavowed any intent even...
...submitted himself and-the University to a public debate on what has become the predominant campus issue of the decade A public forum in which Bok, not an adviser, is forced to confront his opponents on the issue is clearly called for in light of the growing campus concern about divestiture, Furthermore, the leaders of the divestiture movement are owed a meeting with the president to air their grievances...