Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might as well not bother to clamber up the steps of University Hall to convene at all. Members of the Faculty Council, which simplifies and then forwards proposals to the full Faculty, are predicting that 1981-82 could be unusual for the very dearth of controversial issues that could confront the Faculty. Though the year is bound to contain some surprises--like the fairly sudden emergence of last year's technology transfer issue--the preliminary Faculty agenda looks about as empty as Ronald Reagan's White House in August...
Those three holdover issues--the Dowling report, Biology's mitosis, and the conflicts-of-interest statement--while important, will probably excite less controversy than an issue which is not on the Faculty agenda but which most council members say is bound to confront the full Faculty before the year is out: a proposal by the Gay Students Association (GSA) calling for a formal University policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
...hunger strikers in Northern Ireland and the members of everybody's favorite "independent trade union" in Poland have behind them the obvious power of ideals. They do not face the cruel dilemma which America's labor leaders must now confront...
...conservative current is swift, and Helms' time has come. Not long after Congress reconvenes this week, both houses will be pressed to confront, as never before, the so-called social issues, that list of New Right grievances upon which Helms has based his political career...
...Reagan Administration has begun to confront the problem of poor labor conditions. The President plans to ask Congress to grant temporary legal status to all aliens who entered the U.S. before 1980 and give them the chance to become permanent residents after ten years if they learn English and fulfill other requirements. The Administration argues that legal foreign workers would not be as reluctant to report labor abuses...