Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite their frustrations, many teachers are still content with their choice of career. "I love my job," says Rochester's Pugliese. "In the classroom I can have an impact." A Carnegie Foundation survey of 22,000 teachers found that 77% are satisfied with their jobs. "You can make $2 million a year working at some corporation," says Hillview teacher Sue Krumbein. "But who really cares? When you teach, a lot of people care...
...touts the virtues of foreign intervention and the necessity of aiding the illegal war in Nicaragua. Twenty years ago, he was content to allow his family to keep him out of Vietnam. As a senator, he has voted against funding polio immunization programs. He has voted against school lunch programs. When asked how he could justify that vote to poor families, he responded: "They didn't ask me those questions." His civil rights rating is among the lowest in the Senate. In the area of foreign policy, he has said that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is merely a modern...
...hung from such windows. The court ruled that if banners are permitted, school officials cannot decide to have certain ones taken down simply because they advocate a political view different from that of the administration. In other words, Boston University could not discriminate on the basis of the content of the expression...
...Harvard University it should not be any different. The officer, acting on behalf of the administration, was determining what could and what could not enter the stadium; he was playing the role of a censor. It is not right to discriminate on the basis of content. Banners and signs of all kinds are regularly brought into the stadium--most of them carry slogans and pictures we consider supporting of a player or a team...
...basis for the policeman's action was content-based, rather than form-based, then it appears that the incident is clearly a First Amendment issue involving free political expression...We urge General Counsel to look into this University rule and the policeman's conduct," Segall said...