Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robert Putnam, incoming chairman of the Government Department, says the conflict of research and other duties is not reserved for junior faculty. "All of us have situations where we have to write a lecture for the next morning," he says. "At every major university, you are expected to do a good job of teaching and research...
...Committee focused its attention on President Bok, who opposes divestment on the grounds that corporate influence affords. Harvard greater leverage in the apartheid state's human rights conflict. When Bok visited Harkness Commons in March, a crowd of students bombarded him with criticism, demanding that he defend Harvard's investment policy. Later, students and several faculty protesters twice marched on Massachusetts Hall to rally for divestiture outside Bok's office...
There must be a strict and consistent approach governing Harvard's attitude on free speech and academic freedom--one in favor of unrestrained openness of idea, and that delicately counterposes freedom of speech with freedom of self-expression, where the two conflict...
Given the confluence of events and personalities, the answer was a resounding nothing. Pusey, a religious man with a passion for civility and reason, seemed particularly ill-suited to handle or even comprehend the conflict. After the bust in April 1969 the Faculty, divided into factions, began to assert its power. As Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Samuel P. Huntington said at the time. "After the bust, there was basically no legitimate authority in the University." Authority had lost all claims to respect, and the ascendancy of President Derek C. Bok in 1971 did not offer much promise...
...administration dodged involvement in this conflict until early 1972 when Bok followed the Faculty Council's lead in condemning the student harassment...