Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that student in his class who could find a likely corporate takeover target for the master of that financial maneuver. Most business school administrators, including Thomas R. Piper, a Harvard B-School administrator, roundly criticized Edelman's offer, charging that it violated the sancitity of the classroom...
...Edelman's business school community critics seem somewhat foolish in their outrage, we should not be so quick to condemn them for standing up for the integrity of the classroom, regardless of how illusory that principle must be at any school of business...
...dispute that raises questions of where the classroom ends and the real world begins, a Columbia Business School professor last week was forced to withdraw a $100,000 offer he made to his students for finding a company that he decided to use in a takeover...
Edelman refused comment on the controversy, but told The New' York Times, "What bothers me most is that this is a violation of the integrity of the classroom, of my right to teach after I was hired, and, of the student's right to learn." YALE...
Indeed, Soviet-American relations have become a hot subject on U.S. campuses. Charitable organizations, including the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations, along with Congress, have contributed more than $20 million in the past four years to help underwrite university programs. Classroom study of current events from Soviet TV, beamed in via satellite, has become popular since Columbia started the practice in 1984. One reason for the scholarly surge: the warming climate of glasnost created by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But interest in Soviet studies has gained momentum steadily since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the renewed tensions between...