Word: conflict
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...officials are working toward an official policy on free speech on its campus. Faced with a conflict over free speech for the first time, the Business School has commenced a formulation of its own policy on free speech; the plan is to follow the FAS's guidelines on the matter. Although we are pleased with the administration's willingness to adjust its policy, we are dismayed that this omission was so long-lived. Free speech is the one right most precious to an academic community. An institution that proclaims a mission to disseminate knowledge and foster free thought must safeguard...
...element of the new proposal is the "conflict of interests" rule, which "defines any student-teacher sexual relationship as an inherent conflict of interest which could jeopardize the learning environment," according to the Yale Daily News...
...proposed policy allows students to make complaints about a faculty member's behavior to administrators, or file a formal "conflict of interests complaint" with the dean of their school, or the dean of the school to which the professor belongs...
...recently got the transcripts of the Kennedy tapes from the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, and there Kennedy is the serene leader who guides the nation away from nuclear conflict. He is the man with the best grasp of how wars arise from miscalculation and weakness, the man who turns aside his bellicose warriors. Now we have Seymour Hersh and his book The Dark Side of Camelot, an exhausting catalog of Kennedy's alleged sexual indulgences, cover-ups and unlicensed use of family wealth to buy his office. But there has been--and there is in the Hersh account--something...
This attitude is revealed in two other controversies: the Communications Decency Act (the Internet censorship law overturned by the Supreme Court in June) and encryption (a still unresolved conflict concerning government efforts to stop the spread of uncrackable computerized secret codes). In both these cases, unlike in the tax issue, the Webbies are basically in the right. But their indignant absolutism, their refusal to recognize any valid concern on the other side, is obnoxious. Government is right to be concerned that criminals and foreign enemies will be harder to spy on. And parents are right to be worried about some...