Word: unfitness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while such facts make the prospect of defending him unappealing, they don't justify the fact that the university reacted with undue severity. Its decision that Hann was unfit for the university was based on political rather than legitimate disciplinary motives. After all, if every student that got drunk and hollered a bit were expelled for good, Harvard, Yale and Princeton would have to merge for lack of students...
...HANN WAS, after all, an ideal guinea pig on which to test the brand-new hate speech rules: his disorderly conduct supports the university's contention that he is unfit to remain, and his actions are so overtly bigoted that he has no popular support as a martyr. What seems clear is that Brown's Disciplinary Board, in making an example of Hann, punished him harshly because it wanted to prove the school's serious commitment to the hate speech code. The circumstances of his case made them feel they could do this with impunity. A fairer policy would have...
...aloofness is mutual, and for good reason: it is not easy to forget Assad's actions, like the 1982 massacre of some 20,000 civilians in the Syrian town of Hama while routing out Muslim fundamentalists, and his sponsorship of terrorists. "Assad's grisly record makes him unfit to serve as anything more than a temporary and tactical ally," says Daniel Pipes, director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia...
...this new alternative, though, is not clear, since Norplant's long-term safety has yet to be fully studied, and it does have a few side effects. Some critics fear that the five-year implant will be used by policymakers as a way of forcing contraception on women deemed unfit for motherhood...
...fair, Silber has been an able adminstrator at B.U. Under his leadership, the University's academic prestige has increased dramatically. But the dictatorial methods he used to achieve these ends underscore the simple fact that he is unfit to be the governor of this or any other state. Such tactics are hardly acceptable in a private academic institution; they have no place in a democratic government...