Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vocal group of activists--some of whom organized the Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC)--is pushing opposition to the council resolution on the grounds of institutional discrimination against gays and lesbians...
Because of a "vocal minority" of students, says Capt. Michael J. Burbach, an instructor in Princeton's Army ROTC unit, ROTC was forced to leave campus in 1971. He says a university-wide vote the following year brought the program back, but without giving ROTC instructors faculty status or allowing its participants to receive academic credit...
What they did not expect was a direct confrontation with some very vocal gayrights activists, including one who said he had been forced to leave ROTC at Notre Dame because...
This distortion of history is not necessary to convince Palestinians of sympathy for their cause; vocal opposition to Israeli policy makes the point clear enough. But the willingness to equate the Jews so quickly with other groups threatens the core of the Holocaust's meaning. Jews should be especially vigilant against oppression and racism of any kind precisely because of thier people's unique experience...
...awareness" briefing for faculty members. And 21 fourth-graders anxiously await the return of their beloved Mrs. Rogers. "What Americans need to understand is that the way to deal with terrorism is not to isolate the victim but to stand together," observes San Diego Congressman Bill Lowery, Rogers' most vocal supporter. "((The terrorists')) weapon is fear. Most Americans realize that, and I hope the parents and the administration at La Jolla Country Day realize...