Word: expellable
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What troubles Cornell is lack of any central force. It is run by faculty committees so fiercely independent that major change is difficult. By long tradition, the president's powers are limited. He cannot hire or fire professors, or even expel students. In 1958, student rioters pelted the president with eggs, chanting "We want Malott shot!" He wanted the ringleader to go degreeless, but a faculty committee turned him down. When he tried to start a Dartmouth-style "great issues" course, he was also turned down, more or less because it was his idea...
...Brazil will uphold its inter-American and Western alliances," promised Foreign Minister Dantas. But at Punta del Este, Uruguay, in January 1962, though he condemned a "Marxist-Leninist government in Cuba," Dantas refused to vote with a two-thirds majority of the hemisphere's nations to expel Cuba from the OAS. His performance so outraged conservatives at home that they blocked Goulart's attempt to make Dantas his Prime Minister. Goulart waited until last January, then made him Finance Minister...
...university is practically powerless to control political violence in the student body. What would seem to a North American the most natural remedy, expulsion, is forbidden to the authorities in Caracas: any move to identify and expel the terrorists will produce massive student rioting, and further disruption of the curriculum, precisely what the administration is trying to avoid...
...Expel Ten AMN Students...
There is no doubt that the Free Democrats drew the line against Herr Strauss with commendable solidarity. But this very solidarity had led them into the strange delusion that the solution to the government crisis was in their hands to begin with, that they needed only expel the Defense Minister to reassure Germany, the Bundestag, and the foreign press that all was quiet on the Western front. In fact last week's jockeying among party leaders has simply continued to show how insular is Bonn, and how far from reassured the outside world must remain. Nobody has grounds...