Word: spreading
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Barry Dank, a sociologist at California State University at Long Beach who argues that such prohibitions "infantilize" students, has formed a loosely knit group of about 100 professors and students called Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity. He believes the spread of campus rules on romance will leave professors less accessible to students. "It's creating a paranoia that is really affecting whatever is left of an academic community," he says...
...colleges have myths, including some thathave spread across the country. For example,everyone "knows" that you are allowed to leave aclass if the professor is more than fifteenminutes late. According to Levy," some college inConnecticut has the 15-minutes late rule, but noone else does. "Despite the lack of an officialsanction, "every school has that legend...
...knowledge workers possess. It is analogous to physical capital in that it is a complement to labor productivity and (by extenion) a complement to labor demand. It is also analogous to physical capital in that it represents the outcome of an investment: a costly expenditure in which benefits are spread out over a long period of time...
...responsibility or combatting "socialism," Gingrich and his minions urge Americans to reject their conceptions of the government's responsibility. Previously, only Third World countries have been forced to accept such repressive notions. Declassified Cold War documents state that a major goal of U.S. foreign policy has been preventing the spread of the idea that the government should promote social welfare...
However, Dr. Alan Rothman, a specialist in infectious diseases at the UMass Medical Center, said bacterial meningitis typically does not spread rapidly...