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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Even the founder of JuicyCampus.com will concede that “it hasn’t all been fun and games.” And in a perfect world, the privilege of free speech would be tempered by the discipline of individual virtue. There would be a standard of decorum to which Internet users held themselves. But until the gossip geeks out there put an end the charade, there should be stricter legislation on Web gossip...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Too Juicy To Be True? | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...forum. “Like Amaker, let’s lower standards for ‘em! From one-sixth to one-eighth will do, you know; We think the problem must be with the quorum,” “And not with our debasement of decorum, Or with the J. Lorand Matory show,” The Faculty Council mused about its forum. Alas, this measure never went before ‘em, The Dean called off the meeting, and apropos, We think the problem must be with the quorum. Oh Faculty! We cannot but deplore...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Villanelle on the Faculty | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...leaving the audience unsure if there has been any foul play. The drama is streamlined, and the shifting allegiance of Sister James is mirrored by the audience’s confusion over which account to believe. After the intensity of the dialogue, Sister Aloysius’ exaggerated sense of decorum infuses a bit of comic relief into the script. Wright’s production succeeds as a worthy representation of a grave parable...

Author: By Katharine S. Walter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When in 'Doubt' Rely on Actors | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...personality. She is loud, opinionated, and makes enemies faster than an over-eager prefrosh makes Facebook friends. In essence, she is exactly the person that we need to maintain a lively, adversarial relationship with student groups and the college administration. UC meetings would no longer stretch on for hours, decorum would be kept with the help of tasers, and UC skeptics and detractors would vanish in their sleep by her newly established secret police. Her aggressive capitalist tendencies will dominate student group financial matters, forcing student groups to be bold and innovative in order to obtain funds, eventually resulting...

Author: By Matthew T. Valente | Title: Martel-Zimmermann: A New Brand of Student Advocacy | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

When Spain's King Juan Carlos verbally slapped down bad boy Hugo Chavez at the Ibero-American summit, it came, to say the least, as a surprise. For a man who normally is the very embodiment of decorum, Juan Carlos' retort to the Venezuelan president - "Why don't you shut up?" - seemed shockingly uncharacteristic. But a statement from the Palace on Tuesday may have offered a bit of context on the royal mood: the king's eldest child, the infanta Elena, was separating "temporarily" from her aristocratic husband, Jaime de Marichalar. Could His Majesty - coolheaded impeder of military coups, tireless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pain in the Reign in Spain | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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