Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board decision to require a student to withdraw for disciplinary reasons is always preliminary and is never made final until after the student has had a chance to appear before the entire Board and defend himself or herself before the entire Board. The student may be accompanied by an advisor at that time...
...Board, whose members--the top College deans, senior tutors and certain other officials--meet every Tuesday behind closed doors. Where else in this country would you be likely not to know what crime you were charged with? Where else in this country would you have no opportunity to defend yourself in person? Where else in this country would your court-appointed defense attorney also serve as one of your prosecutors? Where else in this country would the judicial body have no responsibility to any higher authority and no requirement to justify or even comment on its procedures...
Students also say that the Signet's exclusive nature has pushed it closer into the realm of final clubs. "It's hard to defend the Signet against charges of elitism. We apply standards which are admittedly vague and which vary from election to election. Everyone who joins the Signet accepts this," Murphy says...
...Party hooted and jeered her for allowing U.S. planes to take off from English air bases for their bomb runs to Libya. The Prime Minister held her ground. "It is inconceivable," she stated, "that (the U.S.) should be refused the right to use American aircraft and American pilots . . . to defend their own people." The opposition was in full cry against her. Labor Foreign Policy Spokesman Denis Healey said Thatcher's decision was "a disastrous blunder" and proved that "when Mr. Reagan tells Mrs. Thatcher to jump, her reply is 'How high?' " Other Laborites vowed that if they ever returned...
...will defend to the death everyone's right to say anything they want, no matter how much I disagree with them. Pithy rhyming couplets shouted through megaphones at midnight vigils are protected by our nation's Constitution. But our Constitution also protects the rights of others and the right of property, both of which SASC has chosen to trample upon. So it is that Harvard is left with ugly, meaningless piles of wood, feeble echoes of other schools' shantytowns, that fail to address the root problems SASC claims to be concerned about--instead of working toward the improvement of rights...