Word: blatantness
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...Nation article characterizes these purchases as a blatant conflict of interest on Harvard's part. University officials acknowledge that if advice or special privileges were given, this would represent a violation of both HIID and HMC conflict of interest rules...
...Kemp's reputation, the Radcliffe dean allowed my friend to take a fifth course the following term to make up her failing grade. I don't know whether the Radcliffe administration, headed by President Wilbur K. Jordan, a Harvard professor, ever confronted the Harvard administration for tolerating such blatant sexism, but I never heard that Mr. Kemp was reprimanded, nor that he changed his classroom style...
...often, say some women, the bias is more blatant. One teaching fellow in the humanities, who asked to remain anonymous, recalls a discussion with a male teaching fellow of a science Core class that showed he was prejudiced against women...
...metaphor, a metaphor of resignation. And frighteningly astute. It often feels to an undergraduate on this campus that the administration is at best an ocean and at worst, something even less sentient. In the course of my time here, the University has made, with seeming consistency, decisions in blatant opposition to student opinion. Cases in point: randomization, where the majority of the student body spoke out against it; Phillips Brooks House Association, when hundreds of students rallied for greater student autonomy; the Core, which few professors and even fewer students believe is intellectually meaningful; even our anachronistic schedule, with finals...
Legal technicalities aside, there are broader issues of journalistic priorities. Should a newspaper cite sources against their wishes? Kuumba members were perhaps most upset over this blatant violation of their stated desire for privacy. The Crimson responds with a hardball journalistic obligation to report the news. As Mandel puts it, "The story was newsworthy, and it could not be written without those e-mails. At that point, a newspaper has an obligation to use the sources even against the wishes of the writers." Granade reiterates this commitment, "It's like the Pentagon Papers--If it's newsworthy, the community deserves...