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...network is used not only to raise money but also to encourage constant alumni contact with possible candidates. Depending on the size and budget of each alumni association, the grads host different events for applicants ranging from fancy luncheons to phone calls in places where the nearest alumnus might be 100 miles away, says William Fitzsimmons '67, director of admissions...
...would have been an ideal choice to give the principle address of today's festivities. For one, he is a rare public figure whose political views would hold enormous appeal to virtually every member of the hodgepodge Commencement audience, from the most outspoken student radical to the stodgiest reactionary alumnus. Moreover, his very presence on campus would be an international event, marking Walesa's first trip outside Poland since Communist authorities there imposed martial law in December 1981, and his first visit to the United States ever...
...three conservative Committee members, often carried a majority of the Committee in favor of socially responsible shareholder resolutions. On the other side of many shareholder resolutions and supporting a more moderate South African policy stood the remaining three faculty members and one of the alumni. The last alumnus, who was the most recently appointed member of the Committee, provided a swing vote...
...Divinity School student and the alumnus who was an a Episcopal minister often spoke in emotional terms, referring frequently to human dignity and suffering. The other student members, including myself, tried to assume the voice of dispassionate reason--the attitude engrained in students who have taken moral reasoning courses--but our arguments no doubt were perceived as left-liberal moralism, the sloppy idealism of youth. Some of the conservative members of the Committee knew only the language of cost-benefit analysis. In their strictly utilitarian calculations secure profits often weighed equally with considerations of simple justice. Other conservative members favored...
They took hours to unload everything. At least one alumnus brought along a TV, apparently anticipating some dull moments in the action-packed schedule which lasts through post-Commencement hucksterism. But between carting the children to Walden Pond and the adults to prepaid boogies at the Metro, the smooth reunion organizers don't leave much room to reflect...