Word: resignment
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...Council sponsored a resolution to raise the number of students from three to five in order to have equal representation on a committee that overlooks an activity in which a quarter of Harvard students participate. The Faculty defeated the proposal, prompting two of three students on the committee to resign. The committee continued meeting without the students. We are not sure where public service is going at this University (we don't think it's anywhere good), but we urge the powers-that-be to keep it in the hands of the students and integrate it into the curriculum; after...
...someone to share the long walk from the Quad. When the vice chair position became vacant, Ty Sheppard nominated Thomas, an energetic supporter of The Cause, to fill it. She was vice chair for a year and a half, and then, she says with a laugh, "I tried to resign, and got stuck with social chair." Thomas had a great time working with the BGLSA, but she qualifies her role: "I don't know if coming to meetings every week and sitting on the laps of gay boys did anything." It's hard to get things done at Harvard...
Most of us found employment right after college. Marriage, followed by children, made me resign, as many other classmates did, from what is still called "work" as opposed to what's done in the home. I have to say I chose to withdraw...
...work force ever more technologically complex? Can they convince the rest of the country (and humanities majors' parents, who wonder just what that $100,000 tuition is going toward) that a humanistic education is valuable even though it does not create ready-made employees? Or must liberal arts schools resign themselves to strictures of practicality and subscribe to the principle of "operational utility," defined by Michael R. Harris as a mandate implying "that the raison d'etre of a college or university consists in serving the immediate needs of society...
...summoned before the Communist-dominated State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament). The Duma wanted an explanation for the slaughter of up to 93 Russian soldiers in a rebel ambush in Chechnya. Grachev publicly decried "all the outrages that are happening in this country" and offered to resign, should the Duma require it. "He was signaling to Yeltsin that his loyalty could not be taken for granted," says the defense analyst. "And he [was] also signaling to the opposition that he might not be all that loyal to Yeltsin anymore...