Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the movie actor took the nation's highest office, Harvard spoke in broad sociological and historical term and argued about the meaning of it all. When Columbia glided into a picture-perfect landing after 54 1/2 tense hours, University scientists began to dream of extravagant payloads for future shuttles. And when it became clear that Atlanta's Black children could not leave their homes alone without thinking twice, Harvard sent consultants to the terrorized city and talked of a country gone violent...
...from a combination of academic and political factors that bear directly on the status of Afro-American studies at the University. Academically, the interdisciplinary nature of the departmental program has discouraged scholars from leaving positions at other universities. Afro-American studies at Harvard has emphasized the need for as broad as possible a perspective on the experience of Afro-Americans, a goal that Huggins is quick to affirm: "The type of program I've tried to establish is not the normal curriculum for a program in Afro-American studies." Adding that most universities' programs have "a history and culture bias...
Except for autonomy over its budget and social events, the new council would have only advisory responsibilities. McDonough and the other students on the Dowling Committee attempted to place a broad statement of the council's role as the "collective voice of the student body" in the committee's report, but even that was softened by compromise. The council "could eventually have the utility for students that the Faculty Council now has for faculty," Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House and a member of the committee, says, adding. "In my 20 years at Harvard I've never seen...
...preserve the University's reputation for appointing candidates with the most prominent reputations in their fields--and all agree that professors take seriously the task of choosing future colleagues in whom the University may invest as much as $1.5 million over time. But, say some, the process allows such broad discretion at so many stages of the tenure process that the system may lend itself to gender or race discriminations. Others argue that Harvard's reputation-heavy criteria effectively mandate the selection of older professors--and thus implicitly discriminate against qualified younger pools, where greater proportions of women are found...
...hardship position." Councilor David Wylie told one of the six tenants currently being prosecuted. "The resolution which has been suggested, though, is tar too broad to help individual hardship cases," he added...