Word: asking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fears that an action expressing the will of the majority of the Harvard community is potentially oppressive to some vague minority of individuals. (Which individuals, with what stakes, we ask?) He contorts logic to imply that the present University position is neutral--he is always trying to elevate his position to the pedestal of the neutral. Come now. Is an untenured professor any safer speaking out for divestiture today than he or she would be speaking out for aid to aprtheid after divestiture had occured...
...should have little trouble finding a town meeting to attend. Call local town halls, find out the details, and ask how to get there. You may find yourself more warmly received at the representative town meetings than at the direct sessions, since at the former there is less chance of your joining in the voting and awarding the Recreation Commission a new swimming pool or McDonald's an allnight franchise...
Understandably, "The Files," as it is known to the cognoscenti, has become a cult feature on college campuses everywhere. Or at least my brother watches it, and a friend of his, and the former sports editor of The Crimson. Maybe you don't believe me. Just ask Miles Kantrowitz how many polyester jackets he's sold since Rockford started. Ask Herbert T. Grierson of Grierson Pontiac how many Firebirds he's wheeled off his lot. They know. They really appreciate how cool Rockford...
...important for me to some extent to defend my colleagues on the ACSR, it was in that context that we chose to go back and consult the historical documents and the evolution of the thinking on the University's appropriate role in a number of contexts, but I would ask that that report not be read simply as another set of remarks on Harvard policy with respect to South Africa...
...which have chosen not to respond to requests for information, and we are going to recommend that they be requested in forcefully worded requests to provide that information to us; we have also suggested that it may not be inappropriate--well, this is again not Corporation policy--to ask for that information in the form of shareholder resolutions. But I personally would not be averse to voting against management on resolutions that were introduced with respect to these companies concerning their South African operations on the ground that we have no information telling us they're doing anything beneficial...