Word: verbalism
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...University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich announced the plan and University President Lawrence H. Summers endorsed it early in yesterday’s Faculty meeting, before professors began lobbing verbal darts at the president. A seven-professor subset of the Faculty Council—the 19-member governing board of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—will participate in the selection of a dean search committee under the plan...
...study showed that there was more perceived overall sexual harassment of white college students than black or Hispanic ones. Although physical harassment percentages were similar, white students appeared to be more likely to be subjected to verbal and other non-physical harassment...
...Harvard’s campus, Huma Farid ’06 reported this November that a group of women yelled “filthy Jew-hater” at her because of her Muslim background. At the time of the verbal attack, Farid was wearing the hijab, or head scarf, indicating her Muslim faith...
...favor as verbs despite Who Wants to be a Millionaire‘s allowance that participants can ‘phone a friend.’ Instead, we call them up (far preferable to ‘celling’ them, as this would set up some unfortunate verbal puns). Of course, in some circles, calling is passé for different reasons entirely and has been replaced by ‘texting,’ which is another noun-turned-verb.The verbing (as it has been ironically termed) of technology nouns is nothing new. Consider the microwave, which started...
...semantic debate is an arena in which it’s easy to lampoon the fundamental concerns of the queer community, a community where verbal, physical, and sexual assault are not uncommon and frequently go unreported. We can debate words and make fun of pronouns, but there’s no real reason why we can’t respect each individual’s right to define gender and sexuality. It doesn’t hurt anyone, and it’s literally a matter of life and death for some students. The semantic debate is important...