Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale was the kind of school where ambition wasn't rare. These were the days when Bill Clinton was already plotting his political career. But the future Texas governor stayed out of the fray, concentrating on athletics and a social life--Texas-style pleasures--instead of grand plans for the future...
Though Bush was clearly at home in the social scene of Yale men, he nonetheless encountered difficulty dealing with members of the opposite...
...contribute dues towards the union's political advocacy. However, the University of Wisconsin is not donating to the Gore campaign and sending the bill to its students. The student fee is a means of promoting an open forum on campus for groups of all kinds: religious, political, artistic and social. A union is allowed to gather dues to support collective bargaining and other activities central to its purpose and many universities see the existence of a well-used forum of student debate as central to their academic mission. As Justices David H. Souter '61 and Stephen G. Breyer observed during...
Furthermore, the principle that students should only have to pay for things they like might have some unwelcome consequences. The line between political, social or artistic activities is easily blurred--could a campus newspaper with a defined editorial position be considered political?--and conditioning the funding of groups on their political status might result in a chilling effect that would eliminate otherwise worthwhile activities. The lawyers for the students also argued that the university should not be allowed to sidestep the case by incorporating the fee as part of tuition, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed might raise questions...
...Universities have a moral and social obligation to use the leverage they have to begin to make a change," he says. "And that's what they've already started doing...