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...enjoy its protection, it almost certainly squelches free-thinking scholarship among the junior professors still climbing the professional ladder. The "up-or-out" system demands that junior faculty members win tenure by the end of their eight-year stints or leave the University. This system encourages young academics to conform to conservative, established academic traditions in order not to offend the conservative, established academics who will vote on their tenure bids...
Instead, a department will typically sputter along, only tenuring traditional, established scholars who conform to some arbitrary standard of "excellence." Meanwhile, more daring departments at other schools will race ahead...
According to Taylor, adolescents either conform to pressures to avoid sex or "make their sexual activity invisible." She said that adolescent mothers are in a particularly precarious position since they can do neither...
Vacationers at Padre begin a typical day at noon. Since the sun is intense all day in this part of the country, there is little need to conform to a rigid tanning schedule...
Where? George Bush, meet your budget, a good old-fashioned Republican document that unmasks the State of the Union as an exercise in sleight of mouth. As a true reflection of the President's will, Bush's budget barely funds many of the programs that could conform reality to rhetoric, and fairly guts many others...