Word: rumorings
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...vice principal Sommerville High School in New Jersey "heard" Jeff dealt in illegal drugs. One day a detective told this same vice-principal that an anonymous parent called police threatening to take matters into his own hands if Engerud kept pushing drugs on campus. With the rumor and an anonymous phone tip, administrators broke into Engerud's looker with a pass key, thoroughly searched it and indeed found a big of speed. Police arrested Engerud and charged him with possession with item to distribute...
...with the discipline rationals is that discipline will become the rights-buster that national security often is. If administrators must maintain some amorphous discipline or national security "posture" to prevent spaced out students from rioting or nuclear holocaust, then what right, what protections, exist? In this case, only a rumor and an anonymous phone call transformed a U.S. constitutional right into a Soviet style promise, redeemable only in a world of lofty words and glorifies lies...
...alleging that two Cabinet ministers had tried to over throw the government. But wait. Then the station announced that Bishop, 39, had been deposed by his Finance Minister, Bernard Coard, also 39. No, hold on. Now Coard was resigning so he could clear his name of the "vicious rumor" that he and his wife Phyllis had plotted to kill the Prime Minister...
...Neill's decision startled his own colleagues among the House leadership, who faulted him for failing to understand the substance of the bill and for buying the veto rumor without consulting them. Asked for an explanation, one leader simply rolled his eyes heavenward. Said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, an old ally of the Speaker's: "The Attorney General always stated that they'd go along with the Senate bill. I've always read into what they said that a compromise would be acceptable." Indeed, Rodino had already started to negotiate a deal with Senate...
Equally destructive as the climate of rumor is the climate of fear which this case has generated within the academic community. Students who wish to express their outrage at the restrictions now placed on their academic programs, at the reprehensible actions of which Professor Dominguez has apparently been found guilty, or at the University's handling of the case, must consider first the ways in which Professor Dominguez may continue to affect their academic careers...