Word: accompli
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College administrators followed a traditional--and reprehensible--path by railroading the new "kiosk rule" through the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) in an "emergency" meeting during reading period last spring. The kiosks greeted students as a fait accompli this fall, and despite objections by many undergraduate organizations, administrators have given every indication they will enforce the rule through warnings, fines and, ultimately, revocation of official privileges from disobedient organizations...
Students were somewhat shocked that no one asked for their opinion before any decisions were made. "Most of us see it as a fait accompli handed down by President Bok. Many of us disagreed with that sort of process," says Joe Leitman, who represents the K-School student committee which has debated the issue for several months. Having set their initial indignation aside, students responding to a survey distributed by Leitman's committee were "mostly positive," he says...
...four to a room in the worst slums) that one newly married couple was forced to live separately, the bride with her parents, the groom with his. The couple found privacy for lovemaking only in their tiny Fiat, parked on a dark street. But even so triumphant a Fiat accompli was rudely interrupted last month by bandits who held up the pair while they were enjoying their cramped privacy...