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Epps called both types of clubs "a detriment to higher education...
...will only state that there are many people in the academic community who are concerned that short-term financial considerations are influencing unduly certain deci- sions which can have a long-term negative impact on academic teaching and research to the potential long-term detriment of patient care...
...Masonic organizations exist in all 50 states and continue to be in the mainstream of all that is good about America. The unseemly use of despotic power by a powerful leader of the Roman Catholic Church can only spread seeds of disharmony and divisiveness among us all, to the detriment of our tradition of religious tolerance. LOUIS CURTH Lake Placid, New York
...trying semester: public service, alcohol policy and randomization have hung as albatrosses around his neck. As Lewis' second semester begins, he would do well to keep in mind the wishes of his primary constituency--his students--more than he has [in the fall] semester, although not to the detriment of decisions he believes crucial to the sound future of the College. And he should soften the edges of his terse communiques, termed brusque and blunt by many who have had frequent contact with...
...disruptions to their lives. For instance, one argument held that changing the calendar would require professors to grade fall-term finals on Christmas Eve. But this problem could be solved by simply making grades due a week later. In short, calendar reform would benefit students with little long-term detriment to the faculty...