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Open stacks were a true innovation, because the status quo in university libraries like Widener at the time was for students to request a book, then wait for a staff member to find it for them...
...realize that students who want to challenge the status quo are sometimes taken more seriously than those who support the institutions of our country," she said. "Personally, I believe that this policy of contempt for the military comprises everyone at the University, the administrators down to the students...
Every so often, America's China policy runs smack into the fact that China and the U.S. are fundamentally different countries. China is ruled by an authoritarian regime that seeks to increase its military influence abroad. The U.S., on the other hand, is a status quo power that wants to impose its political ideals on other countries. Despite the oft-voiced desire for "partnership" between the two nations, it seems that there is little for them to agree on. While the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was, in and of itself, a minor incident, it has removed...
When President Clinton spoke to the nation Tuesday night he alluded to the words of St. Paul and said that we never really understand what happens in life. But when things like this happen everybody grapples for an explanation. By disrupting the status quo, these events call into question the things that we believe to be true about the world. Under the guise of trying to understand tragedy, we also try to relocate it, to distance ourselves from it. So we reframe it as a problem of public policy, as a question of racism, as evidence of social ills...
When Linda S. Wilson became Radcliffe's seventh president on July 1, 1989, she was widely expected to continue the status quo. Wilson, a former vice president at the University of Michigan, was considered less a strong feminist than an experienced administrator who would manage the college's long-term future...