Word: union
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...safe, the conservative government of Premier Constantine Caramanlis had closed the country's seven universities (total enrollment: 100,000). But as it turned out, the students intensified their challenge by staging a takeover of the campuses for six days of marathon sit-ins. "Hands off the student union!" they chanted...
...elected students. The law also takes aim at another hallowed institution on the other side: the "eternal" students, who by the old rules, could take-and fail -the same exam three times a year without being drummed out. Now, to the wrath of the 60,000-member student union (E.F.E.E.), exams are being held only twice a year, and failure means repeating the academic year...
Beyond opposing specific provisions, the protest also reflects a conviction that Law 815 is a government tool aimed at weakening the student union while encouraging the "silent majority" of unorganized students. For its part, the government has made matters worse by accusing the students of seizing the campuses simply because "they are lazy and want the right to be 'eternal.' " But why do so many students fail the exams at all? A root cause is one that Law 815 ignores: overcrowding. Professors often lecture to classes of 1,500 students. Only 10% of Athens University...
...shlemiel, Alchonon (F. Murray Abraham). Teibele loathes her admirer - until he appears in her bed room in the guise of a demon. Under the stars they become lovers, while under the sun they remain strangers, until the night creature persuades his lady to marry Alchonon. But with the public union come private agonies: the alchemic force disperses, leaving two ordinary people who plunge into insanity and sorrow...
There was one case, she remembers well, when she was turned down 21 consecutive times. But Patsy Morris is not one to take rejection personally, and she finally got an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer to say yes. Small wonder she runs into resistance: what she wants is 200 to 400 hours of someone's time and work for no pay. The people she is telephoning are lawyers; her "clients" have all been condemned to death. Thanks in large part to Morris' more than two years of dedicated work, only three of Georgia's 89 death...