Word: vocally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent months, several conservative campus organizations, ranging from the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) to Peninsula to the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, have launched a vocal campaign against what they describe as a single, univocal campus left. Concentrating their attacks on gay rights and women's rights, these groups have sought to portray themselves as embattled crusaders for morality in a spiritual wasteland...
...both writings and speeches, Bok has taken a vocal stance in defining the role of the activist university. As he sees it, it is an institution of higher learning's duty not only to study society but to help make it better...
...benefit screening of the film Cry Freedom last night, vocal figures in the South African anti-apartheid movement said the government said the government's recent reforms do not make divestment by Harvard or other American colleges unnecessary...
...then, and is now coming to a head. Helms' pressure has already forced the NEA to make arts-grant recipients pledge that they will do nothing obscene or indecent on Government money. Sometime in June the NEA's reauthorization and funding bills go to the House floor, where a vocal ultra- conservative rump, led by California Republican Dana Rohrabacher, will attempt to abolish the agency. Since the House will probably not go along -- George Bush has declared that he would not support such a bill -- the issue will come down to a fight over the further restriction of "obscene" content...
...widely considered a leader in American higher education, has been a vocal advocate of the social responsibilities of universities during his 19 years as Harvard's top administrator. Brown University President Vartan Gregorian said Bok had led the call for colleges to rebuild the nation's public education system. "He has been a great leader and very often has articulated the collective aspirations of American academies," Gregorian said...