Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members who took part in the strike-chiefly teaching assistants. But he drew only three votes. The regents instead ruled that teachers would be fired in future if they failed to "meet their assigned duties." They also voted to "regret the necessity" for the use of police but to "reject the view that a campus should be a haven for unlawful conduct...
...Simons rejects Bible-based morality on the grounds that Jesus himself imposed no detailed code of behavior, but rather gave a general injunction that man should live according to the highest standards and seek perfection through love. He likewise feels that the conventional Catholic approach to natural law is too abstract and impersonal. The traditional natural-law moralist would call lying a sin because it perverts the purpose of speech, which is communication. Simons' general-welfare theory suggests a more plausible reason, similar to the thinking of Protestants who reject natural law: that "mankind would be gravely harmed...
...largely determine student membership in the prestigious honorary extra-curricular ac- tivities -- the Law Review, the Board of Student Advisers, and the Legal Aid Society. And a student's numerical average - down to two decimal points -- is often the major determinant of an employer's decision to hire or reject a Harvard Law graduate...
...paint-throwing incident in Australia is one more example of the abdication of political responsibility. Paint throwing humiliates many but persuades no one. Like draft-card burners, these people are not physical cowards, as they have often unjustly been called. They are moral cowards who reject the moral responsibilities of war and the moral responsibilities of serious political opposition. FRANCIS ANDREW HART Assistant Professor Fresno State College Fresno, Calif...
Watson has shown good faith and a willingness to resolve a tricky problem by personally contributing his time and prestige. The Committee has offered absolutely nothing in exchange as its share of this "compromise." It cannot retain the right to reject any speaker and still expect Harvard to make a major concession of its own. That's not a compromise...