Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in regard to the article published in The Crimson on Feb. 21 about the Administrative (Ad) Board which every once in a while meets and decides the fate of naughty students. Who sits on this committee we don't know. All I know from friends who have stood before it is that it is all white. Even it's rulings are secret. Each year only a list of violations and penalties is published with no names or descriptions of the offenses...
Thus shrouded in secrecy and echoing days past, the Ad Board hands down its decisions. With no college students on the board, people who haven't been students in generations are judging the fate of our peers. This committee views under-age drinking as warranting probation and smoking marijuana as warranting withdrawal. Do these things twice, and you may never see Harvard again...
...fact, his role is nearly that Olympian. Europe's most powerful central banker, Tietmeyer has far more influence than any other individual over the Continent's interest rates, exchange rates and the course of its struggling economic rebound. This year he will be a pivotal figure in determining the fate of the European Union's ambitious but risky plan to create a single currency, the euro. "On paper he has no role whatever," says Daniel Gros, a monetary expert at Brussels' Center for European Policy Studies. "But because of his position, Tietmeyer...
...group's concern over the fate of transgendered people stemmed from Sunday's Undergraduate Council meeting, in which a council member called homosexuality a mental illness...
...battle of titans, as the two massive men met at center mat. The match was give and take, back and forth, as the fate of the league hung in the balance. In the end the Brown behemoth proved too much for Ackil and Harvard succumbed, losing the match by a mere four points...