Word: concerns
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...they refrain from disclosing the source of funds for their research and that professors consulting for intelligence agencies may be required thereafter to submit their scholarly manuscripts for agency review prior to publication. Committed as we are to the ideal of open communication, such revelations cannot help but cause concern. While our current rules regarding research may provide a framework for dealing with these issues, some faculty members are clearly unaware of the rules or under the impression that they apply only to research contracts administered by the University and not to scholarly work that professors carry out on their...
...October 10, 1985--Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence says he is conducting an investigation into Safran's use of a $50,000 grant from the CIA to fund an academic conference. Spence expresses concern that Safran may not have reported the funding to the University...
...letter to the council stated that "most issues of direct concern to undergraduates are decided by the Faculty and not the Corporation." A recent Crimson poll of 500 students--in which questions were phrased in an open-ended format--reveals that the two issues of most concern to students are divestment and the tenure process--both of which fall under the decision-making power of the Corporation, not the Faculty...
This adulation bothers Father Roy Snipes, a local priest who has buried many of the gunfight victims. Yet Snipes and others sense a small but rising concern now that drugs, which once only passed through the county, are finding their way into local schools. At a Mass last month, the outraged priest played one of the smuggler ballads and then asked his congregation, "There's a war going on. It's good against evil; what do you want?" As worshipers applauded and gathered around him afterward, the answer was obvious...
Financial analysts hailed the move, and even union officials were at least somewhat understanding. Nonetheless, the announcement from General Motors last week sent a powerful shudder of concern through the Midwestern Rustbelt. GM Chairman Roger Smith said that starting next year the giant automaker will begin the largest pruning operation in its 78-year history. As the first stage in that cutback, GM will shut down ten of its plants and partly close another, in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Ohio, dismissing no fewer than 29,000 workers over a three-year period. GM billed the action as part...