Word: facto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both sides are already touting their contenders. The left will unite behind Jesse Jackson, who should be the de facto front-runner for the next three years. But Jackson will not win the nomination. Although most Jackson supporters are ardent, the marginal supporters--myself included--who chose him only because of the mediocrity of the 1988 field will jump ship if offered a more attractive candidate...
...especially pleasing to find that the one exception in recent years to the Department's de facto refusal to tenure from within is a stellar teacher whose course, Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice", is a staple of many undergraduate academic diets. Sandel not only earns top CUE guide ratings year after year, but is also a professor whose presence at lectures would not be redundant if his notes were typed, xeroxed and passed out at the start of the semester. He makes teaching a process, carefully engaging his students in questions of political theory. Learning is therefore not something done passively...
...staff bases its position on the faulty reasoning that Judge Harmatz's decision was ipso facto legitimate and even-handed, and that the University's appeal would be union-busting of the most dire sort. But if one accepts that the NLRB judge has any legitimacy in the case, one must also accept that he could be fallible--especially after reading his obviously one-sided and almost hysterical decision--and his judgement worthy of appeal...
...Redding -- and Jackie Wilson. He was my favorite." All the members of UB40 have known one another since their shared childhoods in Balsall Heath, a predominantly black neighborhood near the center of Birmingham. "It was a slum," says Campbell, but Brian Travers, who plays sax and acts as de facto spokesman, cautions, "Don't get the idea that we grew up poor, because we didn't. We didn't go hungry and have holes in our shoes or anything...
...student leaders last weekend drew on corporate bylaws to draft an amendment that would create a de facto student majority on the organization's board of directors. Currently, seven-member delegations of students, HSA alumni and University faculty make up the board. One ex-professional staff member brings the total number ot 23. The proposed amendment would boost the number of students...