Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plead their case for voting rights, they rejected the proposal by a large margin. Nevertheless, the Fainsod Report offered an explanation for not granting students suffrage. "The case for vesting faculties with the final responsibility for appointments, curricular and degree requirements rests on their professional qualifications and on the fact that they must live with their decisions over many studnt generations." It seemed paradoxical to many students that the group charged with finding ways to include undergraduates in University decision-making denied them a formal vote on the matter...
Perhaps psychedup by a pre-game ceremony dedicating the field to their coach, Cliff Stevenson, Brown looked like the best 2-8 team in the land. That record is in fact deceptive, as the Bruins have lost by a single goal to the likes of UConn and Princeton...
...getting around the parietal rules simply depended on the dorm. "In Comstock people who arrived five minutes after they signed out for would have the dorm president tapping her foot waiting," Molony says. But in her dorm--Bertram--rules were much looser. In fact, Molony says her freshman roommate moved in with her boyfriend in Dunster House just after Thanksgiving, and no one seemed to notice...
Lobbying in Washington may not be the most genteel profession, but in these days of federal support for education, it's become a fact of life. No longer can women's colleges like Radcliffe--or any college for that matter--sit back and watch the government's wheels slowly grind on, crushing federal aid programs in clammy bureaucratic jaws. Many colleges, including the nations' 125 womens' institutions, have grown increasingly dependent on federal funds. And when the government begins to tug on the institutional purse strings, administrators run from their Ivy towers to catch the next shuttle to Washington...
That was in May 1977. Today, more than two and a half years since President Bok and President Horner signed their names to the agreement, the Joint Policy Committee, or so its members say, has "continued to exist." But it has not met "periodically." In fact, it has not met since 1977. Period...