Since then, four small U.S. colleges have committed to ridding their endowments of fossil fuel investments, and more than 250 other colleges and universities have spawned student- or faculty-led divestment campaigns pushing for action in the next five years.
Free-thinking students spawned the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, which, in turn, provoked a new crackdown that has lasted to this day.Which may explain one genuine irony: when asked, some of the artists who organized the Shunyi and Songzhuang exhibitions chose to pretend that their colleagues were not censored at all.
The five students helped spawn the #NeverAgain movement to end gun violence and spearheaded the organization behind March For Our Lives, the massive nationwide protest calling for stricter firearm regulation held on March 24.
My students' imitations often spawned creative paragraphs growing out of their opening sentences.
Two start-ups, both spawned by Stanford University, are recruiting students at an astonishing rate for "massive open online courses" or MOOCs.
Mr. Tata, a star football and baseball player at the University of Virginia in the 1950s who became a celebrated high school coach, has expressed concern about "adolescent free agents" among home-schooled students who might spawn recruiting wars at public schools.
An offensive T-shirt printed by an off-campus fraternity at Amherst College has triggered a heated debate about the school's alleged "sexist" culture, which some students say has spawned an unsafe environment for women and survivors of sexual violence.
But the two see eye-to-eye as students of power, and their partnership has spawned a treatise on the application of 'hood wisdom to everyday challenges: The 50th Law, due out this September.
Najaf, say the clerics, already bustles with 3,000 students.America's overthrow of the Baath is spawning a Shia renaissance, not entirely to America's liking.
By forging a symbiotic relationship with venture capital and teaching students how to navigate markets, Stanford claims to have spawned an estimated 5,000 businesses.
