Word: shantytown
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When conservative students last year razed a shantytown constructed by student divestment activists, critics on both sides of the issue charged that McLaughlin failed to take definitive action or mete out just punishments. Three years ago, he was also criticized for overriding a faculty vote against reinstating the campus ROTC program...
Last year campus hostility at Dartmouth reached a peak when a band of students, mainly members of the conservative magazine "The Dartmouth Review," destroyed a shantytown built by pro-divestment students. Critics on both sides of the issue charged McLaughlin with failing to take definitive action and not meting out fair punishments...
...Shiite-Palestinian fighting began as about 500 Palestinian women were returning to the Bourj el-Barajneh shantytown from a protest at which they demanded an end to the siege of refugee campus by end to the siege of refugee campus by gunmen of the Shiite militia Amal...
...construction of the shantytown last April, the university acted reasonably, taking the time to evaluate the intent and nature of the action, which led them to decide that it was in fact a legitimate exercise of free speech. We expected that they would again act reasonably, and believe that had they done so, they would again have found our action to be a legitimate expression of free speech which did not threaten the continued speech of Kent-Brown...
...shantytown constructed in the Yard last April by divestment ac- tivists is a good example of a case that wouldhave been heard by the new body, Jewett said,adding that there was a question of whether theshanties constituted a discipline problem or werean appropriate expression of free speech...