Word: token
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...decisions of the Ad Board is paramount—the move to a single fact finder for cases of sexual assault last year was an improvement in this realm. But judgment by a defendant’s peers may not produce more fairness in the Ad Board process. Adding token students to a board of dozens of administrators might bring to a quaint advisory capacity that helps the Ad Board nail down the reality of student life at Harvard, but their position as peers of defendants—rife with the potential of conflicts of interest and breeches of confidentiality?...
...Board’s ability to dispense proper verdicts does not hinge on whether token students have membership within it. True change would be to demonstrate the true nature of the Ad Board’s processes—making salient reforms that remove its shroud of mystery...
...Stills’ influences and their subscription to the current New York school of well-dressed hipsters. “Lola, no, we’re never going to make it through,” moans Fletcher over hopeful and shimmering atmospherics. Too bad the lyric is a token irony, and a clichéd one at that...
...deviously crafting “a good political message” without “letting something simple as the truth get in the way.” With no sense of irony, the student then suggested that KSG choose instead as commencement speaker “a token Republican to prove its liberal reputation is undeserved...
...policy in the Middle East, in effect proclaiming that autocratic, patrimonial rule would no longer be tolerated. But will we extend that same message to regimes that accommodate our need for oil? U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East can no longer afford to use soft words and receive token support from countries like Saudi Arabia that benefit our immediate interests but are unwilling to pursue and punish those who pose the gravest threats to the U.S. NICK WETZLER Portland...