Word: avoiding
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...College should also facilitate alcohol education by arranging times for peer groups to address first-years and upperclass students. The College would avoid liability for future behavior since the sessions would be run by students, while at the same time it would be furthering the goal of health education. Sexual harassment, while not contingent on alcohol use or abuse, is correlated therewith. We accept the statement of the deans on this point, but feel that such issues should also be discussed in peer sessions on alcohol and sexual violence, which is not now the case...
Finally, the College should avoid hypocrisy by amending its formal policies to reflect a more laissez-faire attitude. Students should know that dangerous behavior will always be vigorously prosecuted, but that a lively cocktail party will not be busted by crusading campus police...
Brown's monologue, pivotal, since it relates the dismemberment of Pentheus--which was, wink-wink, the denouement--manages to avoid Joe Friday prosaics. It has of course a blow-by-blow, factual aspect, but Brown illuminates its sorrow and terror...
...opening act; Duritz explains that he will sign autographs later and that he would like to sit back and watch the band play before hundreds of other autograph seekers become aware of his presence. The persistent fan continues until he attracts the mob that Duritz was trying to avoid...
...family in some detail, the book abruptly shifts its emphasis, focusing on the Chief Constable. The Constable, finding the drugged Timothy passed out on his weekend home bed, hits him over the head with a bedside lamp. He then spends a significant portion of the novel trying to avoid public exposure by disposing of Timothy's almost lifeless body...