Word: starr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chilly South Texas afternoon, 20 federal and state lawmen sporting flak jackets and semiautomatic rifles descended on a secluded bungalow near the Rio Grande in Starr County. They arrested three men who were darting out the back. Inside, the cops found giant trash bags of marijuana. Suddenly the ceiling gave way from the weight of other people hiding in the bungalow. All told, 14 Mexicans were charged with drug possession, and 2,000 lbs. of dope were confiscated...
...York Times that Associate Professor Alan Brinkley has been denied tenure. It seems unfair that with a stroke of his pen Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence can add Brinkley's name to the list of other stellar junior faculty members like Bradford Lee, Robert Watson, and Paul Starr who now grace the halls of universities like UCLA and Princeton after being refused tenure at Harvard...
This fall's appointment decisions--as well as those last year regarding popular Psychology and Sociology professors James Stellar and Paul Starr--have only reinforced the role of junior faculty as disposable commodities whose time spent teaching often serves to subsidize older professors who may then forsake the undergraduate community for their research. The Catch-22 of Harvard's publish-or-perish tenure policy is that it ultimately rewards a non-commitment to teaching...
...over 1000 students signed a petition on behalf of Stellar's appointment to a lifetime post--an effort that came to nothing. Brinkley and Lee consistently teach some of the most popular courses in the book and bear a great burden of their department's teaching load. Brinkley and Starr, a Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist, now at Princeton, also practice a cogent writing style in their academic work that promotes accessibility to their research. The University itself honored Lee with the Levenson Award as Harvard's most outstanding teacher last year. Yet the door has been opened for all four...
Nine minutes into the second half Pinezich struck again, taking a pass from Lori Barry and lofting a 20-yarder over Starr's head...