Word: neglectment
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Upon learning of his plans to speak in Lowell House, a diverse group of students spontaneously chose to protest his presence. Our was that it would be gross neglect of civic duty to knowingly allow a spokesperson for racial supremacy to be welcomed into our community without a presentation of deepest outrage. How is one to express that conviction? Which means of action are open to students confronted with the responsibility to protest...
Many experts believe the principal value of the summits has been to force heads of government, especially the American President, to brief themselves on details of trade, currency and interest-rate problems that they might otherwise neglect and to make an effort to gauge what impact their economic policies have on other countries. West German Chancellor Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, in an often quoted reflection on the eight summits he attended, said that "they did not bring about much, but what they avoided was of enormous importance." At every summit, for example, the seven leaders renew what amounts...
...young people are drifting into a netherworld of unemployment, welfare and crime from which they will not escape. Says Frank Slobig, director of the Roosevelt Centennial Youth Project, a Washington-based group: "We are creating a permanent class of young adults who may never overcome the system's neglect...
...student-faculty committee, charged with investigating violations of the resolution, last convened a decade ago to pursue disciplinary action against students involved in a 1975 sit-in at Massachusetts Hall. Since then, the body has alternately been the subject of controversy and neglect. No students have sought positions on the committee in recent years, and Faculty members formally appointed to the committee for this academic year say they are uncertain of the body's purpose. Administrators said yesterday that they will seek undergraduate representatives through House committees but will pursue investigations without them if no students express interest in serving...
...some urban areas, they are problems throughout the country-Their solution requires a national effort towards creative and constructive responses to crime. Imprisonment is a simple, but it is also stupid While it may be necessary in some cases often it only hardens, criminals and provides incentives to neglect the social bases of crime. Instead of spending it on program that can give people the opportunity to become productive, law-abiding citizens...