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...more effective dean's report would have sounded a clear call to all educational institutions. It would have urged a blanket rejection of the President's whole package of educational reforms by suggesting what it really is: a series of measures that would effectively restrict access anew by ignoring racial and economic barriers. The issue of affirmative action cannot be divorced from that of the aid cuts. The flaw in Dean Rosovsky's report is that it tries to suggest such a distinction where none exists...
...months ago when the Corporation decided to reconsider the University's blanket ban on investments in blanks that lend directly to the South African government, many students wondered why. President Bok and the Fellows had no response...
...loan was eventually approved, but because it violated the blanket ban imposed after student protest in 1978, the University sold its more than $50 million in Citibank notes and certificates...
Despite the lack of a blanket ban on the sale of guns. Massachusetts currently has one of the toughest licensing laws of any state in the country. The law requires a license for the possession of all firearms and automatically imposes a mandatory one-year prison sentence for carrying a gun without a license. In 1976, a state-wide referendum calling for stricter regulations failed by more than a two-to-one margin...
...Corporation's decision last Monday to extend the University's blanket bank ban culminated two months of student protest and a heated debate within the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) which ended when the ACSR voted unanimously against lifting...