Word: slopes
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...with the educational mission of the school. Kenneth Starr of Monica Lewinsky fame, who represented the principal, asked the court to carve out a “drug exception” to student free speech. This represents the virulent erosion of centuries of constitutional precedent and is a slippery slope towards an even sharper reduction in the free speech rights of students. After all, if “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” tangentially relates to school curriculum, almost anything could be linked to the school’s mission. Frederick’s message is almost incomprehensible...
...with food, office supplies, and other personal expenses. A separate allotment for books is a step in the right direction.Administrators, however, have legitimate concerns about creating stipends for various student expenses. Each student’s needs are unique, and creating exceptions for specific needs could be a slippery slope toward a “shampoo budget” from the Financial Aid Office. But, already, exceptions are made for special cases like winter coats or the Student Events Fund, which pays for tickets to campus events which students on financial aid might not otherwise be able to attend...
...degrees. Though we are uncomfortable with “creationists touting legitimate science credentials to add credence to their preposterous views,” as Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker commented in an e-mail, to deny such students a Ph.D. would be to start down a slippery slope of almost Orwellian intolerance. Nevertheless, universities have a responsibility to their students to carefully vet candidates for scientific teaching posts to ensure that privately held beliefs incompatible with scientific theory do not make their way into the classroom. Still, we believe that in the end, scientists should be judged...
...always has the sappy, poorly-worded quotes for her away messages? She’s quoting Mitch Albom. As a graduate of D.A.R.E., I can recognize Albom for what he truly is: the gateway drug to bad literature. Far more insidious than mere marijuana, Albom is the slippery slope that leads well-adjusted people to venture into the land of self-help books.Self-help books were once fair game for public mockery. The perception was that they were primarily read by the audience you imagine watching Lifetime Original Movies—lonely, middle-aged women with cellulite and cats...
...through on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks that slice the park lengthwise along its shoreline side. And just up from those tracks, running parallel to them, the park is cut again by the four lanes of Elliott Avenue, one of Seattle's major arteries. Together they split the slope into three long stretches connected by a land bridge over the roadway and a steel span crossing the tracks. So this isn't just a park in the city. It's a park with the city...