Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jump in voluntarism, then, is difficult to explain. What some students and administrators dismiss as efforts by students to stuff their resumes, others prefer to greet as a rebirth of on-campus altruism. One intermediate explanation, advanced by Epps, is that students have begun to realize that they can devote a few hours a week to service without feeling obliged to spend most of their lives on public work. "Harvard students have strived for and achieved a balance so that it's not all or nothing. They have found that they can pursue their studies and at the same time...
Hunt writes in his report that Medved "rather impulsively decided to jump ship and seek political asylum, but not likely due to any extremely strong political or moral convictions, rather more consistent with his immature, impulsive, action-oriented personality style." Now there's an interesting conception of human nature. People don't act because of convictions or conditioning or complexes, but because of "action-oriented personality styles." Which makes everything crystal clear: Medved acted impulsively because he is an impulsive person...
...number of freshmen accepting sophomore status is expected to jump more than 50 percent this year, as the last of the projected 185 advanced standing applicants submit their plans this week...
...there are 90 rows in Michigan stadium and the Detroit Pistons drafted Phil Hubbard. Sorry, Wolverines fans, but Ohio's Clark Buroughs won the golf tournament. The 1900 high jump record was 11 feet and Michigan hockey beat Bowling Green in 1976-7 to get to the NCAA semifinals...
...what the report does not say is what became of the two formal complaints that were field. And what the report does, not say is that the slight jump in reported cases of sexual harassment still does not reflect the large number of women who feel they are harassed or reflect the large number of men and women on campus who still think sexual harassment issues are not worthy of attention. What became of the University's goodwill and sensitivity, and why do so many questions remain unanswered...