Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the law professor who asked a student, 'What's the difference between fornication and adultery?' The student replied, 'Well, I've tried them both, and I can't tell the difference.' " In Wisconsin, when asked if he would accept the No. 2 spot on the ticket, Udall quipped: "I'm against vice in every form, including the vice presidency." Given the heavy pressures upon him, it is remarkable that Udall can keep his wit -and his wits. One typical 24-hour period last week went this...
...will be tainted by their amorality. Value-free social science does not exist in the real world, and those like Crum who profess to practice it are in fact supporting the status quo. In places like Saudi Arabia, this is not only reprehensible but racist. No Harvard affiliate should accept such a position. It embarrasses not only them but the whole community, and should not continue...
Certainly President Bok is no champion of discrimination, and his annual report does not attempt to justify Harvard's long history of prejudice. But with his attack on affirmative action regulation Bok allies himself with those who accept, or at least ignore racism and sexism at Harvard. Attacks on affirmative action have accelerated during the past two years and, while they have at times focused on legitimate issues, too often they have provided a thin veil for the feeling that integration has gone far enough. More than a few deans, department chairmen and professors could view the annual report...
...pack of Harvard professors dispatched to lecture in Washington could easily lull to sleep whole departments of formerly alert government regulators. Yet Harvard might benefit more if, instead of lobbying in the capital to keep governmental regulations out of Harvard, Bok lobbied here in Cambridge to persuade Harvard to accept and even welcome those rules that, like affirmative action, promise improve the University
Brown University's student council Friday requested permission to present its demand that the university accept student input into the presidential selection process at a meeting of the Brown corporation's executive committee this week...