Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board decision to require a student to withdraw for disciplinary reasons is always preliminary and is never made final until after the student has had a chance to appear before the entire Board and defend himself or herself before the entire Board. The student may be accompanied by an advisor at that time...
...decision about just when and how to withdraw support from a dictatorship is excruciatingly difficult. There are no rules, no laws; choices must be made case by case with subtlety, sophistication and patience. Differences of degree as well as kind must be recognized. It is not enough to put governments into two files, democratic and undemocratic. There are regimes that are improving and regimes that are deteriorating. There are sound and unsound democracies, tolerable and intolerable dictatorships, more or less repression. Even "corruption," so offensive to most Americans, comes in different degrees and must be judged--and fought...
...Board initially required the seven to withdraw after they entered the Science Center computer system by telephone on two consecutive nights last month and made it repeatedly print out, "This computer test sucks...
Only students required to withdraw have the right to an appeal, said Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of the College for the house system and member of the Ad Board. Dingman yesterday acted as advocate for one of the seven. He refused further comment...
...Administrative Board's decision yesterday to force seven freshmen to withdraw for a year for sabotaging the College's computer system has prompted Weld North's roughly 90 residents to write a letter of protest to a top College administrator...