Word: expel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manifesto, Comrade?" asks one heavyhanded Tory ad, going on to compare eleven points in the Communist Party manifesto with identical ones in Labor's. Among other policies, the manifesto would commit a Labor government to undertaking a hefty and inflationary public spending program, leave the European Community and expel U.S. nuclear weapons from Britain. But so far Labor's crusade has been ineffectual, especially over unemployment, which stands at a postwar high of 13.6%. According to one poll, even voters between 18 and 21, who suffer an especially high jobless rate, plan to vote Tory rather than Labor...
...dismayed by the naiveté of some of your readers who wrote defending Steven Mosher, the Stanford anthropologist expelled for publishing photographs of forced abortions in rural China [April 4]. An anthropologist has a responsibility to the people he studies not to put them in a position where they can suffer physical harm for any information they have given him. When Mosher took no precautions in his article to protect the identities of the Chinese he interviewed, he showed an insensitivity to their welfare. The university was right to expel him. Well done, Stanford. Richard Mack Jr. Hollis...
When practiced at certain universities, heckling to silence and expel the intruder achieves a tribal quality; it becomes a gesture of group solidarity, a way that certain zealots in the academic capsule reaffirm the received wisdom of their tribe and symbolically slay the stranger. As such, it is after all a comparatively harmless practice. If academe were more profoundly primitive, undergraduates might have to initiate themselves into the group by, say, ritually mutilating a Republican...
...university set up a fact-finding committee that looked into all the accusations against Mosher, including those by his exwife, who independently charged that he had acted unethically. After hearing Mosher's side of the case, twelve mem bers of the anthropology department voted unanimously to expel him for "behavior inappropriate for an anthropologist." Mosher, who plans to appeal the decision to the Stanford administration and may take the case to court, insists: "I was expelled because Stanford chose to believe the charges brought against me by the Chinese and chose to believe that by publishing articles and photographs...
Scores are higher in the Christian schools for a few reasons. Parents take an interest in their child's performance, the school may expel a student for the slightest offense, corporal punishment is permitted, and the dregs of society are not admitted. Public schools must offer an education to everyone who walks through the door. A diverse student body will never score as high as a small homogeneous group...