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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principle it opens up a logistical nightmare for the University," Assistant Professor of Government Lisa Anderson says of the conflict between academics and ethics. "Harassment is not limited to sex--other forms can be equally serious. On what grounds do you have to have two faculties...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Sexual Harassment: Lesson or Legacy? | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

Alarmed by the Jobs-Sculley conflict and Apple's sagging position, company directors pressured Sculley to exert his power as chief executive. Last May he did so. In a major corporate reorganiza tion, Sculley realigned the company along conventional manufacturing and marketing lines. Jobs, who had sought to persuade the board to fire Sculley, was kicked upstairs, losing all operating authority. Four months later he was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaken to the Very Core | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

President Bok, speaking for the governing Corporation, does not claim such a monopoly on morality. While he argues against total divestment in favor of educational, national and individual efforts to help solve the South African racial conflict and criticizes others who levy their efforts only in the investment arena, he believes reasonable people can disagree on the possible solutions. He recognizes the cogency of other views. His fund represents an offer to cooperate on the issue of South Africa, having realized there is room for common effort even given the radically divided positions of some activists and some administrators...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Moral Fences do not Make Good Neighbors | 9/25/1985 | See Source »

MASS. HALL'S LATEST SORTIES in the South Africa conflict subtly contradict chapters two and three of the gospel according...

Author: By David S. Hilzen, | Title: Rewriting the Gospel According to Bok | 9/24/1985 | See Source »

...announcement dealing with the equally significant and more emotional | issue of the hated pass laws, the presidential commission described these rules as discriminatory and "in conflict with basic human rights." It noted that the laws make criminals out of blacks who live in or near South Africa's cities but lack proper documentation, and estimated that arrests for such violations have been running between 200,000 and 300,000 a year. The panel recommended the abolition of the passbook system and the issuance of the same identity document to all South Africans, regardless of race. If Parliament takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Cracks in the System | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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