Word: disrespective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration officials argue that "continued disrespect for freedom of speech" will lead to disciplinary actions-possibly expulsion-for these two students. But the debate about whether or not periodic interruptions of a public speaker constitutes a violation of free speech is an entirely separate issue from University Hall's attempt to saddle two students with responsibility for the actions of hundreds. There were numerous students who were as vocal as the SYLers; and while a small minority of students may have hoped to drown Weinberger out completely, the great majority were simply exercising the right (recognized even by the British...
...prevent thought. They do so by instantly conjuring up a whole complex of circumstances and feelings to be drawn automatically from one situation and plugged into another. For "another Iran," read: hostages, helplessness, humiliation. For "another Cuba," read: adventurism, revolution, proxy mischief. For "another Afghanistan," read: imperialism, superpower bullying, disrespect for the rule of law. (For "another Nicaragua," see "another Cuba," above...
Instead, one diplomat after another took the podium to excoriate the Soviet destruction of Flight 007. Pierre Aubert of neutral Switzerland opened by taking oblique aim at the Soviets, saying that the most useful confidence-building measure would be "to persuade those who believe only in force, even in disrespect for human life, that they are in error." There was some doubt whether Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko would show up to face the heat. He not only showed up but droned through a standard speech about disarmament. His audience listened anxiously to hear whether Gromyko would mention the airliner...
...help students who fail to register. According to this view, even unsubsidized loans and campus jobs represent a form of help or at least afford some measure of convenience to nonregistering students. As such, these jobs and loans arguably constitute encouragement to those who violate the law and manifest disrespect on the University's part toward the will of Congress...
...sentences and fines. The loss of federal grants and subsidized loans could costly add several thousand dollars more to these criminal penalties. In such circumstances it would start common sense to argue that the willingness of the University to offer a regular job or an unsubsidized loan could encourage disrespect for law or flout the will of Congress...