Word: whim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some students complain that the process of choosing undergraduate representatives has been conducted in secret at the whim of a single administrator, Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery...
...have a mechanism by which student groups can be created on a whim, and it's a burden to kick out money to those groups," Merriweather says. "In a lot of ways, we're [also] doing what [the college] should be doing anyway," he adds, referring to the USG's shuttles and other services...
...dedication to BRYE and PBHA was not a passing whim. After directing BRYE his sophomore year, Joe has risen the ranks of PBHA leadership and currently serves as the organization's president. The giving guy from my first-year dorm now heads one of our largest student organizations. His caring nature now impacts the hundreds of Harvard students involved in PBHA and the thousands of Boston and Cambridge community members who benefit from PBHA programs...
Such a vision is nothing more than an atavistic embrace of law as the institutionalization of whim. It leads to a view of human activity repugnant to the one held out by our Constitution and abhorrent to any conception of dignity. In downgrading men and women to the playthings of dictatorial caprice, it denies us our free will. Ten years after the Berlin Wall collapsed, we might pause to consider whether a vision like that should stand...
...began on a whim...