Word: disinterest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gulfs three biggest Arab producers, which now dominate the Persian Gulf trade as Iran sinks deeper into internal chaos. Instead of moderate price increases, higher production and cooperation with Washington, the outlook for the cartel as a whole seems to be for substantially higher prices, tighter supplies and increasing disinterest in whatever the U.S. seeks...
Because educational instruction became co-ed in 1943, the merger would have no direct effect on professors' lifestyles, which explains their disinterest. Franklin L. Ford, dean of the College until the end of 1969, remembers bemused Faculty members at the time asking, "What does it have to do with...
...CHRONIC faculty absence, like the delay of the first CUE meeting this year, is only one aspect of the Faculty's longstanding disinterest in maintaining CUE as a serious contributor to Faculty policy. CUE was set up in 1969 as part of the Faculty reorganization plan to make recommendations on educational policy to the Faculty Council, which in turn decides whether to send the suggestions on to the Faculty in the form of legislation...
...student Government tutor, agrees that "professors are simply better scholars." However, professors and the University have long ago set priorities that prevent student exploitation of these Faculty skills. Robert N. Brandon, a graduate student who taught Philosophy tutorial three years ago, said the problem partially arose from "faculty members' disinterest in teaching in general, because this is a major research university." Brandon added gently, "It is not that they don't like teaching so much. They just like other things better...
Students play roles of varying importance in educational change. Most schools allow students to serve on committees forming the curricular proposals, but rarely do students initiate any changes. Student reaction to new requirements ranges from annoyance to disinterest to quiet praise. One student at Harper says sarcastically of the proposed requirements there, "Some people are under the impression that this is going to be an Ivy League college someday." A student at Syracuse said his college's plan would lead to a "ridiculous, arbitrary core." But student newspapers at Stanford and Northwestern lauded proposals there...