Word: inform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calling Freeman's resolution "a wimp motion." Park said that the assembly failed to adequately inform itself on the issue...
...While we hope that the letters will be effective, the main idea behind this is to inform students about the bill and its implications," Karpilow added...
Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 1960--Four Black college students sit down at the lunch counter of a downtown Woolworth's and ask to be served. When the manager refuses, they inform him they'll stay. And they do, until closing time, when they return to their campus and recruit dozens more. The protest continues for a week, larger every day, as the Blacks and their white allies remain peaceful but assertive, and as local whites grow angry and violent...
...president can profit from the unique perspective of students if he lets them inform themselves. Rather than making a meaningless solicitation for their uninformed views, Bok should let students suggest names of possible candidates, interview the candidates, and submit an evaluation of the final candidates for his serious consideration. It would be harder for Bok to make a decision against the students' and faculty's wishes, in the face of this public student position. An open process would make the president more accountable to students and faulty and less likely to betray them, because their views would be publicly know...
...allowing students to participate formally in the selection is that students attend the school for only three years and would not know the candidates nor the qualities required in a dean. But surely the solution is not to exclude students from the process, but to let them inform themselves about the views of the candidates and then submit their evaluation. Instead of arguing that students are too uninformed to assume a formal role, Bok should give the students the chance to inform themselves, by interviewing and evaluating the candidates and offering their unique perspective. In fact, students and faculty should...