Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard employees don't do anything about discrimination, however because clear-cut case are few and far between. There are channels for employees to take--such as requesting a formal review by the office of the associate general counsel for employee relations--but most are just too scared to go the bureaucratic route. There is no union, no bargaining power. As one employee explains, "You can't do this kind of thing alone...
...authors to delineate carefully the structure and content of courses to be designated as "Core courses," which will gradually phase out Gen Ed courses over the next four academic years. Whether Faculty members will be willing to teach the types of courses outlined in the report is not clear; the Core may well set up the type of large lecture courses that no one likes to teach and no one wants to take...
...footnoted, and he was not altogether happy when his publisher, Houghton Mifflin, decided to call his book The Mind Stealers and splash that title in big, bold black letters across a bright red dust jacket. But Chavkin did intend his book to be a warning. He makes that clear at the end of his first chapter when he notes that the year the CIA started its massive MK-ULTRA program to develop mind-control techniques--1953--was the same year the U.S. signed the Nuremberg Code, prohibiting experimentation on humans unless the subjects are fully aware of the nature...
...with Vietnam. Carter may pledge a commitment to human rights elsewhere in the globe; with regard to the nation that we bombed and delohated in the name of democracy, however, the lofty rhetoric is abandoned. Truong and Humphrey's trial may be interpreted by the Vietnamese government as a clear indication that the United States is neither ready nor willing to normalize relations, nor is our government willing to consider the payment of reparations...
...professional pressure ambivalently. Her class didn't have ready-made plans, and that kept many avenues open to them. "In a sense knowing exactly what you want to do closes you off from so much, even though pre-professionalism may make things easier in the short run." Having a clear direction obviates a lot of self-searching, she concedes, but, carried too far, it encourages mental rigidity--and flexibility, she feels, was one of the greatest gifts she received from her education by the Charles...