Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finished in the red last years Spruance said, but the year all agencies seem to be pulling weight and may attempt to expand the near future...
According to Sabrina T. Peck '84, who created Citystep and also directs it, she and the 20 other undergraduates who work with about 100 fifth and sixth graders attempt weekly to portray the vitality of urban life, as seen through the eyes of a child. She says, "We don't just dance with the kids, we provide role models, we work on creating a curriculum that helps them explore events and themes in their lives...
...business ethics, and the South African government is justifiably indignant at what it views as gratuitous interference in its internal affairs. If we indeed agree that foreign based businesses should use their subsidiaries to vigorously oppose South African laws, we implicitly accept the larger premise that one country may attempt to contravene or even to supplant the legal system of any other country if it believes that its own policies are more efficient, fair-minded, or moral. To support this premise would be to promote a particularly contemptible kind of cultural imperialism, and this is precisely the reason...
Consequently any attempt to deal effectively with the problem of sexual harassment must begin with the recognition that, fundamentally, sexual harassment is a socio-political, rather than sexual, issue Harvard, the socio-political climate which eaves rise to sexual harassment can best be described by the following statistic currently only 23 (5.8 percent) censured faculty are women. There is a huge discrepency between this figure and the fact that approximately 40 percent of the student population is composed by women. And while the percentage of women who are junior faculty members is higher they of women with teaser there...
...sexual harassment is merely the symptom and power imbalance, the disease, how are we to attempt a cure? Obviously, the University is not going to rush out and tenure x-number of women so as to balance numerically the tenured male faculty. Nor does it appear that a Women's Studies Program under whose auspices the different experience of women might be appreciated and our own voice heard is imminent at the University. Additionally, neither of the above is necessarily a panacea, curing all of Harvard's co-educational ills, of which sexual harassment is but one. Because no aggregate...