Word: silbering
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That station's board of trustees had prevented the station from airing a rebuttal to a speech by President John R. Silber, in which he promoted the idea of education by academic elites, directly after the broadcast of that speech...
...Silber had attacked aspects of the station's programming in a letter calling for "an end to mindless and illiterate chatter," and to the advocacy of "quack psychotherapy," and any form of drug abuse...
...NLRB overruled both these objections. The board said that the number of faculty members outside the country was not enough to affect the results. It added that the faculty members were sophisticated enough to be able to separate fact from opinion regarding Silber's conduct...
Last spring, the faculty senate at B.U. gave five-year president Silber an overwhelming vote of no-confidence, citing his personal abrasiveness and cavalier budget cuts...
...trustees went on to give Silber a full vote of confidence at a special board meeting last...