Word: hopelessness
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...student, fighting an arbitrary decision by an administrator or faculty member can be a hopeless task. For complaints against students, the faculty has discretionary power over grading and can complain to the Ad Board or the Committee for Rights and Responsibilities. Students may go to the Commission on Inquiry, a group with no power to reverse decisions, no matter how outrageously the student is wronged. Students have very limited say (through a few representatives in the CHUL) about what rules they live by in this community, and even less say in their fair administration...
Resolution of the Hartman affair by the GSD will be further impeded by the overwhelming collection of abstract and quasi-legal issues that are involved. If the faculty attempts to skirt these issues it would leave ground for fundamental challenge. But it could find itself in a hopeless debate if, for example, it tries to carve out the meaning and correct application of academic freedom. Such questions demand University-level study and definition, not ad hoc formulations by individual faculties...
...still a hopeless flailing to think on it: Rice is dead and gone. I try to look at the bright side. For one, now in a possible World Series Cecil Cooper can start with Dwight Evans preserved at right field. Cooper on first and Yaz at left--no more problem of dumping the designated hitter. But (sigh) manager Darrell Johnson will probably start Carbo or something... And, uh, Rice wasn't hitting so well in the past week anyway--chopping his swing and neutralizing his power. Hah. It's very depressing. And you have to feel most sorry, ruthless...
Although the degree of optimism varies from department to department, most department chairmen and placement directors term the situation gloomy but not hopeless. "Our graduates seem to be continuing to get positions," says Paul C. Martin, former chairman of the Physics Department, one of the most affected among the sciences. "But typically the choices of academic positions available include some that are less desirable than corresponding students would have ended up with in Sputnik times." And although statistics compiled by Donna G. Martyn, director of placement for the GSAS, indicate that as of November 1974 over a quarter...
...require four volumes of explanation. What does fully justify Scott's endless, repetitive probing is the struggle of the British community to avoid acknowledging the truth and the dubious morality of its presence as ruler of India. Kumar's own cultural alienation tends to make his case hopeless. He was raised from infancy in England, and he acquired upper-class speech and habits at a prestigious public school. The bankruptcy and suicide of his financier father forced him to return, destitute, to India. There his English classmates ignored him, and the Indians with whom he lived regarded...