Word: diplomas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graduate who had his diploma suspended this summer for involvement with the death of a first-year fraternity pledge sued the university Tuesday for breach of contract and intentional infliction of emotional distress...
More than a year after his graduation, MIT charged Yoo with hazing and violating the school's fraternity policy. MIT's Committee on Discipline voted in August to revoke Yoo's diploma for five years...
Without a diploma, Yoo said his career choices are restricted. His plans to apply to business school have been put on hold by the suspension...
Pavela said that colleges have the right to suspend diplomas for non-academic violations that take place while the alumnus was in college. He said a diploma is as much about students' good conduct as it is about their grades...
...seems completely distinct from the one within the university. College values intelligence, grades and ideals; the outside world values money and prestige and no integration seems to exist between the two. This mentality was illustrated beautifully in last week's Independent, whose cover featured a smiling graduate holding her diploma, whose face became a mask of horror when she turned to the real world and realized she had to find a job. Going from being a full-time student to a full-time breadwinner seems like jumping from a sauna into the Atlantic Ocean...