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...Raquel A. Romano '92 said that the best way to change the club's status is by pressuring the men who might participate in club events. "I think the way to get rid of that kind of discrimination is not through legislation, but when women refuse to go to these final clubs when invited by the men," she said...
...Wall Street banker told me that with $50 million he could get rid of homelessness in New York," he said. "But it isn't a pool of people. It's a surging stream coming in from all over the country...
...keep down the social cost by getting rid of those that are going to run up the cost," she said...
...three years at the helm of the 70% black school system, Roussell alienated whites by, among other things, revising the "tracking" system that had long channeled black students into lower-level courses. After the board's six white members voted to get rid of Roussell last December, five black board members quit in protest. Last week's boycott ended after five days, when Roussell appealed to the students to return to class. But biracial talks to determine his future broke down with no resolution of the impasse...
Should a university have the right to get rid of a "grossly incompetent" teacher? Should a professor whose classroom performance does students a "disservice" be sent packing? Outside the ivory tower, few people would say no. But when the University of California, Berkeley, last year became the first school to draft rules for firing tenured teachers, some charged that this amounted to an assault on their intellectual freedom. "You'll never go broke overestimating how sensitive the tenure issue is to faculty," says Richard Chait, director of the National Center for Post-Secondary Governance and Finance at the University...