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...been a real problem to drive emeritus professors out of office at age 75. Some of my colleagues rather resent it," says Jerome Hamilton Buckley, Gurney professor of English literature emeritus. "I think something should be arranged...
However, the student activism that administrators seem to resent so today acted as a crucial catalyst for change in the 1960s. "There was a role that Black militant processes played," Kilson said at a recent forum. "They put activist pressure on the American academic power structures to open up curriculum structures to Afro-American Studies...
...standard objections raised is that the ready availability of condoms will only encourage teenagers to have sex. "This gives a stamp of approval to something we feel is immoral and unhealthy," says Rabbi Abraham Hecht, president of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. Some parents resent the loss of control over their child's decision; others think the sagging school system could put its dollars to better use. "The chancellor's primary mission is education," insists John Hale, a former member of the New York State board of social welfare. "He's not the health department...
...become an annual battle on the shores of Lake Minocqua. Their adversaries, local fishermen armed with rocks and insults, fear that the Indians' spearfishing will deplete the supply of walleyed pike and drive away sport fishermen. Though the Chippewa have voluntarily limited the size of their annual catch, they resent the fact that their ancestral claims are begrudged as concessions rather than viewed as legal rights...
...addition, Damascus officials have asserted that the 3,000 Syrian troops in Saudi Arabia will defend the desert kingdom but will not participate in an attack against the army of another Arab nation, even though Saddam and Assad, who head rival wings of the socialist Baath party, bitterly resent each other...