Word: withdrawn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Forum had withdrawn its invitation to Shockley and Innis and claimed that the two speakers were unqualified to speak on the subject, the cancellation might have been acceptable. Instead, the executive board chose to blame a shadowy disruptive influence which allegedly threatened to shout down the speakers...
...very much. It is not entirely clear how much torture, or how much of Thieu's police and prisons in general, is paid for by American money. It's arguable that the government responsible for them exists only by virtue of American support, and that if such support were withdrawn it would be replaced either by the PRG--whose treatment of American prisoners of war, though apparently not so humane as that of North Vietnam, bears no comparison to the stories ex-inmates of Thieu's jails tell--or by a neutralist coalition of some sort...
...their president's relation to faculty that helps explain the difference between the political climates of B.U. and Harvard. Because Harvard's relatively cohesive liberal Faculty wants the "academic freedom" to do research, including research for the Defense Department, they have voluntarily withdrawn their endorsement of the University's most glaring and provocative pro-military activities: ROTC and recruiting. The Faculty, after all, hardly needs ROTC. The protests are a nuisance they are happy to do without...
...said that there were very few students in ROTC at the time and that "they (ROTC) probably would have withdrawn anyway...
...weeks later the Corporation approved the Faculty's request that academic credit be withdrawn from ROTC courses and that appointments for ROTC instructors be revoked, but it voted to negotiate new contracts with the Defense Department to keep ROTC units operating at Harvard...