Word: turf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student Turf. One apparent payoff is a new Isla Vista tolerance for the police. Residents cooperated in the search for the recent bank bombers, and two young suspects with no apparent political motive were quickly rounded up. Somewhat belatedly, the university has joined the I.V. reformers, appointing an ombudsman and a full-time I.V. coordinator. The California regents recently voted to spend $600,000 in Isla Vista during the next two years. Planning will consume $50,000. Some of the funds wilt purchase a vacant lot that I.V.ers turned into a park. Nonetheless, Chancellor Vernon Cheadle still seems baffled...
...university administrators and students everywhere, "doing something" is indeed difficult. Some campuses have avoided the Isla Vista pattern by creating coed dormitories that tend to stem the student exodus. In most places, colleges can neither require students to go back to dorms nor dictate dormitory-type rules for student turf. They can. however, keep in touch with their off-campus students, and lobby for sound local government. "Nobody is seeking a return to the idea of in loco parentis," says Mike Tejeda, 26, a six-year Isla Vista resident who is now a senior. "But the university must realize that...
...jealously guarded academic departments to the possibility of a unified science of man and which provided so much of the original impetus to the formation of the department. How sad to see such a marvelous hope trampled upon by myopic academic politicos eagerly staking out their narrowly confined specialist turf...
...nearly half a century, under eight Presidents and 16 Attorneys General, J. Edgar Hoover has commanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the zeal and jealous authority of a Chinese war lord, protecting the U.S. against enemies within and his agency's turf against all meddling from without. Today, at 75, Hoover directs an army of more than 7,000 agents-with an extra 1,000 reinforcements on the way, authorized this year by Congress...
Weather was a factor in the contest, as large pools of rain water covering the turf made accurate passing and kicking difficult. Harvard rouges have become accustomed to these conditions, but Brown clearly was not. "These were ideal conditions for us," Ordway said...