Word: affirmative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy, which the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life approved over-whelmingly in January, would force the College to affirm that it does not discriminate against gay students, a policy already on the books at nine of Harvard's 11 schools. It would not require Harvard to spend a penny--the University would merely add the statement to existing codes forbidding discrimination on the basis of race...
...council members greeted the GSA official presenting the policy with sharp questions about the need for Harvard to affirm explicity the nondiscrimination they considered so obvious. And, they noted, Harvard only lists the groups that federal law requires them to enumerate. Their explanation for this "policy:" If Harvard were to begin listing groups not mandated by law, people would assume it discriminated against all unlisted groups--like fat people, people who wear glasses, and other oppressed groups...
...nobody knows how many years may be invalid. "Perhaps not null and void," Barnes says, "but probably voidable. That would sure mean a bunch of paper work down the tube." Like any good politician, Barnes is fighting paper work with paper work: he plans a resolution that would affirm those hundreds of "voidable" acts -and correctly pirouette the antisocial bears...
There are enough opinion polls and man-on-the-street interviews to affirm this generalization. The rise in T shirt aggression and bumper-sticker bravado reflects an increase in frustration and confusion. Some of the immediate reasons are no less true for having become cliches...
...different from those of other members of society. The University, however, has a special autonomy and reasoned dissent plays a particularly vital part in its existence. All members of the University have the right to press for action on matters of concern by any appropriate means. The University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate and publicize opinion by print, sign and voice...