Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dunster murder-suicide is only the most famous example of the University's neglect of its students. Many of us don't even know our adviser's name; most are only dimly aware of the proctor or tutor who lives downstairs. These "advisers" don't make much effort to change the status quo. Instead of a cute quote in a House facebook about how they are "always available to help," tutors must actively seek out their assigned students, meet with them for meals and personally invite them to study breaks...
...bells began chiming two weeks ago. They were restored to their original sonorousness after more than 20 years of neglect, during which both the church's clock and the bells ceased to function...
...marshmallows." After complaining she couldn't see, Michelle collapsed and died of dehydration. Six weeks later, at another wilderness camp a camper named Kristen Chase died of heatstroke after a forced march in 105 [degree] heat. In 1994, yet another camper, Aaron Bacon, died of acute peritonitis compounded by neglect on another wilderness program...
...very young men are usually crude, and to every one but themselves almost worthless; besides, it is hard to find more than half a dozen interested in the same subject at once. It appears to us quite out of the question to speak to the half-dozen and neglect the hundreds. Let those who think differently consider well this line from Byron, that served as the motto of one of our predecessors,--"I won't philosophize, I will be read...
...this strict curriculum the task force claims that students need the guidance that requirements would give them. The report says these requirements are necessary to insure that all students are exposed to those significant intellectual skills and elements of culture that, given a free choice, they might well neglect and later regret having done...