Word: referred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gray stresses that the afternoon portion of what most people refer to as "Commencement" is really the annual meeting of the AHA. "After degrees are given in the morning, the University stops and the AHA takes over," Gray says, adding, "The morning Commencement ceremony is a serious, inspiring occasion. The tenor we aim for in the afternoon is a happy occasion...
...death unless they returned home. "We asked them to leave because they were engaged in contemptible and wholly unacceptable activities," said a State Department spokesman. The Libyans responded by insisting that they were students rather than diplomats, and holed up inside the five-story, red-brick embassy, which they refer to as a People's Bureau. Eight carloads of police and FBI agents took up positions around the building, waiting to seize the aging "students" if they set foot outside. The standoff abruptly ended when the Libyan government announced that it had agreed to recall its four nationals...
...late there has been much talk of a minority student center on campus. "Third World Center" is the expression that has been coined to refer to it. And, sadly, the name "Third World Center" has come to be used loosely by all the concerned parties--students and administrators...
...little history may be in order. Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, first used the term "third world" to refer to a group of non-aligned, developing countries that united in an effort to focus world attention away from the cold war rivalry of the superpowers to the problem of inequitable resource distribution between the rich and the poor nations. Culturally, these Third World countries have little in common; their economic and apolitic demands are what unites them...
...best a proctor can do when faced with a situation he can't handle, FDO administrators admit, is refer a student to a support service, or to a higher authority such as a senior adviser. "If there's ever a question, the FDO is here with the answers," Moses says...