Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfect test case would have been Tufts' harassment policy, which sliced the campus up into speech zones. In some areas, one could speak freely. In others, students could be punished for verbal, written or graphic speech which offended other members of the community. The certain legal battle was never realized because Tufts President Jean Mayer axed the new rules...
...trends, the battle for acceptance of gays and lesbians is far from over. The University of Wisconsin resolution, for example, is unlikely to be enacted because of a state law requring the university to provide military instruction. And the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force reported 7200 incidents of verbal harassment and physical violence against gays and lesbians in 1988. Even in Massachusetts, advocates warn that the recently passed gay rights bill--which outlaws discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing, credit and public accomodations--may be in jeopardy of repeal...
...home sweet hell." It's Al Bundy of Married . . . With Children arriving at his doorstep, which in fact does resemble the gates to Dante's Inferno. Conversation in the Bundy family is a torrent of verbal abuse. "This is a home, not a restaurant," insists Al's wife Peg, after he demands his supper. "I know," he snaps. "If it was a restaurant, we'd have a clean bathroom...
McLaughlin's story--an "absurd situation," he terms it--exemplifies the verbal harassment some students in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) say they have had to contend with here. From its tumultuous expulsion off campus in 1969 to last year's debate over returning the program to Harvard, ROTC has had an uneasy relationship with the University...
...outnumbered Republicans took plenty of verbal potshots from Bulger and returned volleys of their...