The latest conflict between Georgetown's commitment to free speech and its Catholic identity has thrust the university into the news again.
Of course, it is building projects like this, along with the accompanying leisure facilities, shopping centres and luxury goods that have turned British universities from seats of learning to economic pessaries – thrust into dwindling university towns to try and halt the yeasty creep of post-industrial decline.
Moreover, the resignations thrust both universities into the market for presidents at a busy time.
The heads of two of the city's universities have found themselves thrust into the middle of the escalating standoff between the Hong Kong government and student activists demanding democratic reforms.
As early as the 1980's, Mr. Katter was pressing university officials to build a thrust stage as part of the arts center project.
Mr. Diner, a historian with a passion for urban topics, said that the center was just one prong of an effort to build an "urbanist thrust" into the university's Newark campus.
Neal was first inspired to create music while attending university in Montreal, where he was thrust into club culture back in the electro heavy days of 2008.
One implication of these changes is that (often much maligned) university communications and marketing professionals have been thrust centre stage and are being relied upon, tested and scrutinised like never before.
They do not change the original thrust of the report — that university officials could have saved lives by notifying students and faculty members earlier about the killings on campus.
David Rothery, a professor of planetary geosciences, at the Open University, UK, commented: "The Himalayan mountains are being thrust over the Indian plate; there are two or three big thrust faults, basically.
Universities and government research organizations (GROs) are increasingly being thrust into the role of an honest broker.
