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...education. There can be no question that maintaining free speech in the academy is essential to promoting the open discourse that is fundamental to American society. But in this case, the UC is not violating anyone’s rights. In order for a university to function as a locus of higher learning, it must be able to set minimal standards for its students’ academic preparation. Since the opportunity to attend a UC is not a right but conditional upon an applicant’s willingness to meet these objective standards, claims of discrimination suggest either that...
...place,” says McLoughlin, a graduate of the University of Miami-Ohio.The Hilles space, slated to open next fall, is intended as a solution to the space squeeze faced by student groups. Forty-five thousand square feet on the top three floors of the library will become the locus of student groups. The College plans to build office space as well as communal spaces where groups can hold meetings or just hang out.With Hilles complete, even more space will open. Thirty-seven student groups now have their headquarters in the basements of freshman dorms. When these groups move...
...months since, CNOOC's $18.5 billion bid for Unocal?which threatens to trump a rival $16.5 billion offer by Chevron?has created a storm of opposition in Washington. To CNOOC's surprise and dismay, its bid has become a locus for all the angst some Americans feel about China's rising economy, adding further tension to already strained trade ties between the U.S. and China. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on June 30 warning that the proposed acquisition poses a threat to national security and urging the Bush Administration to block any deal...
...Plan will permit only a couple of new towers to be built in the dense center of downtown. It will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate of 950,000 sq. ft., the equivalent of two or three medium-size office towers a year, and push the locus of that new development southward into a shabbier quarter. Most intriguing are the provisions that will halve the bulk of new buildings and essentially require that every new skyscraper have stepped setbacks, surface ornament and a decoratively tapered top. Barring an unlikely reversal at the final vote next month, modernism...
...chafe and jar/ of nuclear war;/ we have talked our extinction to death." Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima, Mon Amour might also be judged an exception to the indirectness of the period. In some respects, Hiroshima, Mon Amour is not about Hiroshima at all, only using the occasion as a locus for showing how people learn to deal with a tragic past--in the case of the woman in the story, a past that has nothing to do with Hiroshima. Yet choosing Hiroshima as the context, the witness box, for the woman's revelation is a way of saying: here...