Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mob stopped fighting, and all was quiet as people noticed this idiot. My exaggerated memory has him whistling "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood...
...Appropriately, he was brutally attacked by the mob, and his body was scattered across Loker as a reminder to all that dumbness is not allowed...
...Sciences yesterday afternoon (News, March 9) was exceptionally sensitive, involving disciplinary action against a student accused of rape. Strong disciplinary action was going to be taken in any case; the debate was to determine the level of severity. Outside University Hall gathered students drumming and chanting, a happy little mob urging that "justice be done!" This would not be the first group of self-righteous protesters that tries to drown out debate with thuggish tactics, but the tactics were especially troubling in light of the case being discussed...
...about the moral climate we have spawned? Is it simply coincidence that the Faculty voted according to the demonstrators' wishes, or did the students expect their intimidation to work? Will this now encourage greater contempt for a faculty that is presumed to vote according to the dictates of a mob? Although Faculty may well have cast their votes irrespective of the chanting, the demonstrators ensured the corruption of the process, cultivating disrespect for the deliberative procedure itself...
...demonstration in front of University Hall faced a daunting challenge: How could the three groups protesting each make their cases without overshadowing one another? Would the Faculty recognize three separate groups of activists, each with legitimate complaints that should be taken seriously, or would they just see one mob of noisy students drawn more by the novelty of protest than by the causes themselves...