Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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OSTENSIBLY, the U.S. Marines were sent to Lebanon to stabilize internal conflict there sparked by the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the tenuous installation of the Gemayel government. So the realization that, on balance, the Marines' presence seems to heighten rather than diminish conflict within that country leads to a simple conclusion: they should be recalled...
...University's position on the Commencement conflict should not come as a surprise to anyone at all familiar with minority concerns at Harvard. Harvard's failure to recognize the importance of the Jewish holiday Shavuos is yet another in a long list of insensitive inactions perpetrated by the administration...
...situation an isolated, once-in-a-lifetime coincidence. According to the Jewish calendar, the same conflict will come up again in the 1990s, so setting priorities now is essential. Several other schools faced in recent years by the same situation--including Yale, MIT and Columbia--have demonstrated a commitment to the values of smaller groups within the community by rescheduling their commencement dates...
...reluctance to bend from the immediate social values with which it is most familiar--an "integrated" class, a stable social setup, or, in this case, the "traditional" formula for scheduling of Commencement. In each case Harvard's reluctance to depart from its time-honored mindsets has led to embarrassment, conflict, and a group's perception that Harvard has little concern for group members' needs...
...last year while it still could. For now, it should acknowledge and apologize for the slight to a segment of the community, perhaps by printing announcements in Commencement programs; it should do its best through alternative ceremonies and additional functions the next day to ease the effects of the conflict: and it should now promise in certain terms that next time the holiday and the Harvard formula conflict. Commencement will be rescheduled. At that time, there will be no excuse--even thoughtlessness--to do otherwise...