Word: academia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago I said we should have a department in computer science, [the administration] would have said 'why not have a department in automotive technology as well,"' said McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis '68, who was largely credited with bringing computer science into mainstream academia at Harvard...
...Estonians, Latvians, Orthodox Christians, Asians, and a host of other ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union (which far outnumber ethnic Russians when added up), Jews are excluded from all positions of significance in the party, the government, the military, and industry. One of the last havens for Soviet Jews--academia--is being steadily eroded by the ostracism of the mushrooming refusenik population...
...Welles, it nonetheless seems a more accurate portrait than Leaming's collection of quotations from her hero. Still, if Welles had never started a single film after Citizen Kane, he would remain one of Hollywood's great creators. Now that cinema has become a major field of study in academia, several surveys have shown that Citizen Kane is by far the most thoroughly explicated film. So there is a place in the classroom for The Making of Citizen Kane. Robert L. Carringer, an associate professor of English and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hardly mentions...
Academics agree that sexual harassment is not a problem restricted to Harvard, nor certainly to academia. They reiterate that Harvard has dealt with the problem in a more public manner than most other institutions, giving the appearance that the problem is worse than at other schools...
...clinic for those outside academia, for Harvard students it is a lifeline to the outside world...