Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike itself bred a culture, as the University adapted itself to the uproar. Professors placed notices in the newspaper, urging students to attend class or noting that mid-terms were cancelled, section meetings changed...
...been wiped out by indignant collegians. At the University of Wisconsin, students even threatened to boycott the Milwaukee company's brew, while the Daily Iowan's editorial column slammed Miller for "propaganda that is so blatantly offensive to a wide variety of people." Miller responded to the uproar by canceling the advertisement's future appearances. Said company spokeswoman Susan Henderson: "We blew...
...Harvard Advocate and other campus publications held a banned books reading last night at Lamont Library in response to the recent uproar over Salman Rushdie's book, The Satanic Verses...
...uproar has indicated that the Black community on this campus feels that there is an issue of general police racism, which transcends this individual incident. A survey of upperclassmen last spring, for example, revealed that 45 percent of Black students responding said that they believed that minorities were treated differently by University police most or all of the time. No matter what happened last week, we must take advantage of this opportunity to discuss such concerns and seek possible solutions...
...uproar this spring among freshmen opposed to a change in house assignment would have surprised generations of earlier men and women at Harvard. Far from adapting to the latest change suggested by administrators, students acted as if the lottery system was an untouchable Harvard tradition, as sacred as eating ice cream every...