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...claim that you don't believe in caning. Tell that to Rodney King! Your policemen understand the need for such punishment, but are too embarrassed to do it in public, with government sanction. Instead, you can in secret, losing all of the beating's value in deterrance...
HASCS personnel can sanction students withoutconsulting the Ad Board either by shutting offaccounts or limiting students' access to thenetwork whenever they see fit. HASCS usually putsthe account of a student accused of wrongdoing onhold, Steen says...
...College has similar provisions on freespeech, contained in the 1990 FAS Guidelines onFree Speech report. The guidelines sanction"behavior evidently intended to dishonor suchcharacteristics as race, gender, ethnic group,religious beliefs or sexual orientation...
Although the new group is still awaitingapproval from the campus life committee of theUndergraduate Council, it has already received aprovisional sanction from Dean of Students ArchieC. Epps...
...culture where the traffic in sex is direct and unabashed, the sanction of marriage for sexual activity certainly is no longer needed...