Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. Washington wrote an article for News-week on Campus that discussed the difficulty of being a scientist at a predominantly liberal arts college. The author wrote, "On the rare occasions when I do speak from my knowledge of engineering, there is a language barrier. I can't talk mathematics to the people in my core classes because most of them don't understand...
Harvard merged with Radcliffe in 1974, and the final clubs have yet to follow the cue. This lag is no surprise; the clubs have never been on the cutting edge of equal rights. Sexism is the last bastion of the clubs' illegal elitism, and the gender barrier, like that against public school students, Jews, and Blacks, will tumble in its turn...
What can be done to overcome the obstacles hindering the effective implementation of Harvard's affirmative action policy? First of all, significant attempts must be made to overcome what Affirmative Action Officer and Assistant to be President John B. Williams called "a barrier of will." If, as Dean Jewett stated, "central policy can set the tone [for University action]," then significant differences can be made, according to Williams, "by individuals who want to have an impact on the problem," especially with strong leadership from the President...
...Abrams quoted Justice Byron White as sayingthat the First Amendment creates a "virtuallyinsurmountable barrier between government and theprint media so far as government tampering, inadvance of publication, with news and editorialcontent...
Perhaps the biggest barrier faced by students who want to design their own major is ignorance. Many members of the Harvard community, students and faculty alike, are not aware of the interdisciplinary option. At the beginning of last term, when one special concentrator looked for a departmental meeting within her house, she says she was met with a joke about being "special...