Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divestiture movement has responded, by packing ACSR meetings, holding vigils and rallies, and most notably last year with the fast for divestiture and the founding of the Endowment for Divestiture. And each time the movement has responded, the Corporation has backed down and the ACSR has moved closer to advocating divestiture. Last year the ACSR split on a straightforward vote on divestiture, 5-6-1 against it. The Harvard divestiture movement has inspired successful and profitable divestments by Cambridge and Massachusetts pension funds, and by universities like Michigan State, which reported that through divestment it made over $2 million. Finally...
...politics is the Maronites, with some 500,000 members. A rugged mountain folk and the most martial of Lebanon's Christians, the Maronites take Suleiman Franjieh their name from John Maron, a learned monk who was Patriarch of Antioch in the 8th century. The Crusades brought the Maronites closer to Rome, and in the 1700s they were formally united, thus reinforcing their long and dearly held association with the West...
...going to be closer than we thought." Bernal said, "I think we'll make a fantastic account of ourselves...
...things about what's happening to fraternities across the country. At Colby, the Administration is throwing the frats and sororities out of their buildings ostensibly so that the university buildings can be distributed more fairly. At Penn. the administration is considering putting faculty members into the houses to maintain closer supervision. A friend sent me this awful article from the Dartmouth that quotes. Professor of Classics Edward Bradley "Fraternities and sororities used to be needed at institutions to mix students coming from totally different backgrounds," he said at their Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. "Today, however, creating homogeneous bodies...
Divinity student Kathryn K. Stevens, who will be joining Dorman on the trip said, "I feel like I'm ready to wage peace and this program sounds closer to it than anything else I've heard...