Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked at the phone, looked at the space heater which had probably managed to bring the room slightly above the requisite night temperature of 64 degrees, and realized it was probably futile...
Much of the Black community at Harvard followed the events regarding the Currier House incident. The four students who shattered the glass window were required to withdraw for one year, as was the student who made the first phone call containing a racial slur, while his roommate received disciplinary probation "vice severe" for placing the second call. The punishments meted out to the students who confessed to the three aspects of the incident were deemed fair enough...
...implicit message to the student is that iresponsibility and immaturity can go virtually unpunished as far as Harvard is concerned. First, it is ludicrous to think that after the attack on the building and the threatening phone call, the individual victim would find an additional phone call a "light-hearted joke." Such poor judgement is not, as the Ad Board requires, like those "personal characteristics" which warrant the suspension of the original punishment. Secondly, the time between the punishment and the recent decision has not allowed sufficient time for Williams to effectively respond to the probation...
...threatening racial nature of the Currier House incident. Williams shared a room with Jack Patterson, the student who placed the first call, stating, "Negro hit squad strikes again," and who subsequently had to withdraw for one year. Even though Williams did not specifically use the term "Negro" in his phone call, the two calls had the similar effect of inciting fear in the individual victim. We fail to see justification for the Ad Board's division of the three actions in terms of the racial implications involved. For the Ad Board to deemphasize even one part of the whole...
...sales force that was responsible for millions in sales, and one of them said, 'You mean if I sit and drink a cup of coffee for five minutes, that just cost my company $287?' Well, yeah, it did." Imagine what it costs when some jerk gets you on the phone and spends 45 minutes networking! "You've been taught that it's rude to hang up on someone," Baker advises. "So wait till you're talking, then push the button...