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After specialising as a gunnery officer, Dewar became a staff officer and a controversial student of naval tactics before seeing extensive service during the First World War.

She was co-sponsor of a controversial student Senate resolution that called for the UC system to divest from companies that do business with the Israeli military in its occupation of Palestinian territory; the UC Berkeley student Senate narrowly passed that non-binding resolution in April after an emotional debate.

Oxford University has said it does not plan to alter the height of a controversial block of student flats built near a beauty spot.

"I've been through lots of very controversial student projects," said Carol Becker, who recently left the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to become dean of Columbia's School of the Arts.

A controversial study of college students in relationships at the State University of New York in Albany showed that women who had sex without condoms had fewer signs of depression than women who used condoms or refrained from sex, even when researchers controlled for relationship status and other personal factors.

"Everything Bob touches is controversial," said Claudia D. Goldin, a former student of Professor Fogel's and now an economics professor at Harvard.

He diligently developed the age-old Japanese arts of karate and kendo and formed a controversial private army of about 80 students, the Tate no Kai (Shield Society), with the idea of preserving the Japanese martial spirit and helping protect the emperor (the symbol of Japanese culture) in case of an uprising by the left or a Communist attack.

But Mr. Edwards's aides said that at least for now he would leave alone a controversial element of the education law, allowing students to transfer out of schools deemed failing.

A controversial element of the plan is the "walk zone priority," which gives preference to students living within walking distance of a school.

A Columbia University student who carried a mattress around campus to publicly accuse a fellow student of rape graduated alongside her alleged attacker on Tuesday- and took her controversial prop to the ceremony.

"As a student of the Jewish state, I can't think of a more controversial and difficult decision," Biden said.