Word: insularity
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...finding and stopping potential homegrown terrorists before they strike. Fort Dix offers a case study of this new and sometimes precarious method. The model is called pre-emptive prosecution, and like other pre-emptive strikes of late, it is risky. It means relying on often unreliable informants to infiltrate insular communities, and it means making arrests before anything close to a terrorist attack actually happens. The process sometimes ends with a trial but not necessarily a conviction, and that may be beside the point. It is, in all, a messy and unsatisfying ordeal, and possibly the best available option...
...09—whose grasp of the realities and challenges of dealing with the administration is limited at best.Though it is their greatest strength, Sundquist and Sarafa’s student-government experience may well also prove a handicap. As insiders, Sundquist and Sarafa bring with them the insularity endemic to the UC.This is particularly disconcerting given the fact that Sundquist served as vice president and Sarafa was a member of the UC’s six-person executive board during the party fund debacle of the past two months. After interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam abruptly...
Legitimate student involvement is especially important for the review of the Ad Board. Ironically, though the Ad Board makes decisions that directly affect student life, it fosters insular secrecy. The Ad Board considers all its cases in closed sessions, and even students who are being Ad Boarded are frequently confused about their cases. Students see and experience frustrations with the Ad Board and its lack of transparency that administrators and faculty may not even fully realize...
...address, Faust said the very “essence” of this University “is that it is uniquely accountable to the past and to the future—not simply or even primarily to the present.” Our insular, inflexible administration cannot possibly have the foresight to be accountable to the future without hearing from the very people it has chosen to lead that same future...
...hopes to eventually attract students from the U.S. - or even Israel - and about one-third of the student body will receive financial aid. This is a far cry from most élite high schools in Jordan today, which are more like an Arab Beverly Hills 90210 - wealthy kids leading insular lives...