Word: arguments
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...reception of the students, however, was less than warm. While students presented evidence of an antiunion campaign--such as asking work supervisors to oppose the unions and spreading rumors about senior employees' loss of status--Bok denied any knowledge or complicity. When the students offered to give reasoned arguments in a written list of complaints, Bok said he probably wouldn't have time to look at it. Still, it doesn't bother Bok to say that "universities should be the last institutions to discourage a belief in the value of reasoned argument and carefully considered evidence in analyzing even...
...argument that the embarassingly low number of minority professors reflects the small pool of minority Ph.D. candidates, the report provides a firm if depressing answer. While Harvard has not hired minorities, in most cases it has not even sought them out. In five departments reviewed in the report, 10 separate searches last year looked over 750 applicants--and like the year before only four were minorities. Eight years ago, a study known as the Whitla report revealed that the names of minority candidates that showed up on other major universities' search lists were absent from Harvard...
Activists have made the argument in the past few months that the disagreement over a Board vote goes back to the original Charter and the legal role of the Board. Robert Weissman '88-89, director of the Ralph Nader-sponsored Harvard Watch, wrote a report to the Overseers in March arguing that the Board should resurrect its rights and vote on divestment...
...Cambridge Police officers, who were responding to a complaint about noise from a party, arrested Marti in Adams House early on April 10 after an argument that ended in a scuffle. While city police rarely enter Harvard-owned buildings, the patrolmen apparently thought they were in a private social club...
Enjoining argument over the Thernstrom incident would have implied acceptance of the agreement on which all discussion depends: that the best case should prevail. That would matter not just for Thernstrom, this time. It would establish a precedent by which to judge other professors, other times. And so Kilson had as little to say as his colleagues...