Word: wakeful
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...council was created in the wake of left-wing student pressure to reduce the influence of the all-too-powerful coterie of the Dean and his advisors. Administrators, anxious to restore calm to campus, decided upon a system with the council and Faculty on top and student-faculty bodies like the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) and the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL)--a set-up likely to be effective in muffling protest while being not overly conciliatory to student demands...
Shenouda's confrontational activities coincided with a marked increase in Islamic fervor and militancy among the country's Muslims, and in the wake of the violent incidents this spring and summer, some Copts began to fear for their physical safety. As Matta puts it: "All of us are in this dilemma, [because] Muslims feel Shenouda is a threat to Islam and the Koran. He was working against the line of the government and moderate Muslims." Most Copts feel that Shenouda's ouster is a tolerable price to pay for communal peace...
Turning from memories to current concerns, Oney denounces the conservative backlash against innovative "new journalists" in the wake of the Janet Cooke incident earlier this year. Cooke, he suspects, "fell prey to the highly competitive scene at the Washington Post." But, he adds, conservative editors are over-reacting by calling for "the death of the new journalists"--people who Oney says enhance journalism by "using the full complement of techniques writers can use to make a point" The soft-spoken Oney does not appear to get perturbed often, but he is more biting than usual when discussing those who would...
...contributors 50 cents, not 30 cents, to donate a dollar to the University. That could produce a "very chilling effect," one Harvard official said; Laurence B. Lindsey, an analyst at the National Bureau of Economic Research said giving could drop off as much as 40 per cent in the wake...
...Harvard's graduate schools. The Kennedy School's record of affirmative action is particularly abysmal--it has yet to hire one tenured woman or Black, and has had but one female associate professor in its history. Department of Labor scrutiny of the school seems to have diminished in the wake of the Republican takeover, but the University itself should pressure the K-School to step up its searches. With millions of dollars pouring in for the school's new building, it is particularly shameful that the school must plead insufficient funds in spurning a student request for a minority recruiter...