Word: elitists
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...function of the Undergraduate Council and the role of its chairman. His decision is a symptom of all that is wrong with the council and with the way the community views it. Second, for the leader of the student government to identify himself with a sexist and elitist organization is an affirmation of values that we believe are anti-thetical to this community...
...private organizations, but they still engage in the the same offensive practices that led the council to urge the Committee on College Life to sever ties. For a student or a council representative, membership in a club is a private matter. But Eisert's identifying himself with sexist and elitist organizations contradicts his role as chairman, who must be able to speak for all undergraduates...
Calling French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac's plan for greater university autonomy and selective admission "elitist," students in that country have been protesting proposed changes in the structure of the French university system since last Thursday. The students have thrown stones, barricaded streets, and burned police cars...
...festooned its four sides with such a tangle of ducts, pipes, risers and shafts that it became the first steel-and-glass building to exclude almost all natural light from its cavernous interior. Since Beaubourg was meant to be (in the jargon of the day) a culturally transparent, non-elitist, participatory, anti-hierarchical, modular omnisensorium, it had no walls to speak of: walls were for palaces and prisons. Instead it had temporary screens, on which its Matisses and Miros hung transfixed like rabbits in the glare of spotlights. Entropy set in the moment it opened...
...protesters promised to continue until the government abandons the reforms, which students called elitist. The National Assembly deferred action on the bill by referring it to a committee...