Word: purports
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...undergraduate organizations that appear on pages 429-30 of the Handbook for Students, such as that "[n]o organization shall be allowed to appear on a commercially sponsored radio or television program" and that "[n]o organization shall in any publication, radio or television broadcast, public performance or otherwise purport to represent the views or opinions of either Harvard University, Radcliffe College, or their student bodies...
...aloof Jackie--perhaps no one dared do so until Jackie was safely in her grave. But though both Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage (Morrow; $24) and Edward Klein's All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy (Pocket Books; $23) purport to be about the marriage, what they are mainly about is sex, sex, sex--with the emphasis on extramarital...
...last few weeks in the ways in which they have made haphazard staffing changes which will have grave consequences for students who are committed to public service. The administrators' decisions to promote restructuring for its own sake, especially without any regard for the profound effects on the students they purport to serve, should not be allowed to continue...
...whose administration brought speakersranging from the controversial Sister Souljah andLeonard Jeffries to the less controversialLorraine Carey, says the BSA does not purport torepresent all of the Black students on campus...
Core courses are commonly--and often rightfully--regarded as watered-down versions of regular, departmental courses in the same disciplines. Even courses that purport to focus intensely on a single period of time or area of academic theory gloss over the rigor inherent in true study. Cores are seen as "guts" in many cases--lackadaisical breaks from an otherwise profound education. Students should not be given the obligation or the opportunity to take courses that do not measure up to departmental standards...