Word: withhold
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There are currently not any incentives in place to ensure students fill out the online forms. But Department Administrator for the Office for Academic Programs Deborah Green said yesterday that in the future, it may be possible to withhold individual grade reports until students fill out their forms...
Some novel tactics of voter mobilization are being tested as well. Votergasm.org is asking for volunteers to have sex with a voter--and to withhold from nonvoters--on election night. Convinceyourmom.com offers tips for the "frustrated young lefty" for swaying his or her parents to vote against Bush. An ad in a local paper in the northwestern tip of New Mexico sought young women 16 to 28 who could "do a dance number and represent American diversity" at Republican events. Applicants, it warned, "must be able to smile and stay pleasant for long hours...
...friendly hellos to unidentifiable acquaintances and stared at the hot young things (freshmen) sunbathing in front of their dorms. Before I could register, however, I had to overcome one daunting obstacle: the dreaded activities fair. Rather than succumbing to toothy smiles and offers of cheap candy, I decided to withhold my e-mail address and to avoid awkward social contact at all costs. I pulled from my pocket the stark white headphones of my sleek-’n’-sexy mini iPod, inserted them in my ears and made a run for it. I blazed past the Harvard...
...standing policy of requiring employers to sign an anti-discrimination pledge in order to recruit on campus. But under the Bush administration, the military began using the Solomon Amendment as grounds to extort Harvard and other universities into granting waivers from their non-discrimination policies. The government threatened to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding unless the military is provided unfettered access to recruit on campus...
...Harvard Republican Club (HRC) considered but did not vote on a proposal that called for the group to withhold support for the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) at its first meeting of the year last night...