Word: charter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make the new disciplinary body legitimate and fair, standards of evidence, standards of punishment, criteria for calling witnesses and cross-examining them must all be explicitly stated in the new committee's charter. Most important there must be a clear procedure for determining which cases it will hear. Establishing an appeals body that will not artificially distinguish between political and "apolitical" cases is all well and good. It will be to no avail, however, if the faculty majority on the committee can refuse to hear cases. Saying, as the University has suggested, that the committee will make such decisions according...
...charter document, the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR), are fundamentally flawed because they purport to protect the rights of all members of the community but only authorize sanctions against students. Meanwhile, students have no means of redress if their rights are violated by other members of the community who happen to be paid, instead of paying, to be at Harvard...
...Board of Trustees of the Harvard Endowment for Divestiture, who helped them establish the guidelines for their own Endowment. The MIT version is very similar to the Harvard one, but they have only allowed MIT seven years to divest completely, as opposed to the 20 allowed in Harvard's charter...
Harvard's more than 200,000 alumni elect the Overseers to their six-year term through mailed ballots. Set up by the University charter, the board technically oversees the Harvard Corporation, but has concentrated on reviewing University academic policy in recent years...
...charter of the movement defines it as a forum to apply "moral force" in international relations as part of the search for world peace. But, said Gaddafi, "to hell with international peace." Unless U.S. policy changes, he said, an international revolutionary army of resistance fighters should be sent out to combat the U.S. throughout the world. He urged other countries to "light a fire under the feet of the U.S." He also attacked Zaire, Cameroon and the Ivory Coast "as puppets of imperialism" because they had restored ties with Israel...