Word: hocks
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Student records have been "like a giant sponge that indiscriminately soaks up information," Hock says. One of the first positive effects of the bill has been a massive review of student record policies at Harvard and other schools around the nation...
...There's a growing awareness of records and abuses of the individual's right to privacy," Barry Hock, a lawyer with the Mass Advocacy Center who has coordinated the center's work with student files, says. "Student records are a more critical area because they affect just about everyone at some time...
Students, parents and educators also claim that unfavorable and unsubstantiated statements filed in the school record can hurt a student for years. "Decisions are made about a person and he has no idea of why," Hock says...
...fair trade-off," Hock says, since the university has to re-examine its policies and its files, while the student "gains a greater degree of control over his own life...
...peacocks, nude statuary (it later had to be clothed in deference to some Denver bluenoses), and carriages of every hue to suit her costume. He bestowed on her jewels that supposedly once belonged to Queen Isabella of Spain; in fact, they had been gathered by agents from New York hock shops. He built what was possibly the country's grandest opera house and imported for Denver's delectation almost every current luminary, from Sarah Bernhardt to Oscar Wilde (who bombed...