Word: triviality
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Into this environment came a sporting event—a trivial and unimportant game made all the more meaningless by the tragedies we had all witnessed 10 days earlier...
...though, they still seemed trivial...
...ultimately, what wins Price are the skills that matter. Remembering facts (and I say this as a ruthless Trivial Pursuit player) is a pretty low form of intelligence, a Poindexter skill that gets less useful the further you get from your SAT. Players on Price apply knowledge--they calculate, make bets and take risks on the basis of comparisons and past experience--which is a whole different level of intelligence from regurgitating data...
...wants to be heard and respected, the UC must explain why mere undergraduates should be involved at the highest echelons of decision-making. I, for one, am not convinced we have either the experience or the objectivity to have a vote on any issues, trivial or crucial. From consultation on summer storage to picking the next University president, the UC has thus far failed to show that they are not themselves an unsuccessful bureaucracy merely lobbying for an elusive raison d’être...
...issues such as racial equality and the right to political protest. But since 1998, students have sued schools in astounding numbers, with as many as 94 disciplinary cases reaching appellate courts in one year. And while lots of these suits claim First Amendment violations, the speech involved can feel trivial: inappropriate clothes, online insults or, as in a current Supreme Court case, BONG HITS 4 JESUS written on a banner...