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...remained silent, eschewing political statements, through four wars, and only coming into the public eye when attacked. The student uprising of 1969 over ROTC and Harvard's treatment of its tenants brought the Corporation into public view, but while the body stepped into the crisis and dealt with the ROTC issue, it left most of the debate and all matters of discipline to the Faculty...
...credit, but Janet W. Rich and Michael P. Adams wound up doing their thesis research in Australia and Peru respectively. The variety of senior theses is always astounding--here is a lively sampling of some of this year's crop that were researched far away from Harvard or dealt with unusual topics...
Although he has never dealt directly with freedom of speech in a public statement, Bok has written extensively on the related issue of academic freedom, strongly opposing restrictions on scholars based on their professional or political opinions. The issue first surfaced in 1971-72, Bok's first full academic year as president. At that time, a number of students--mostly members of the now-defunct Students for a Democratic Society--interrupted several of Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein's lectures. They were protesting what they called his racist views because of an article he had written which concluded...
...been avoided if the University had adopted its decentralized structure earlier and been more responsive to community concerns. Calkins says that if Harvard then had a vice president in charge of community relations, many of the issues of the day either would not have developed or could have been dealt with much more easily...
...others are taking a position of "watchful waiting" to see what sort of proposal is worked out before taking a definite position. "[Last fall] we felt there were moral issues that were at stake and only financial issues were being addressed. We hope that it can be dealt with this time keeping the moral issues in mind," she said. She said most of the staff is still uncertain about the idea of a lease arrangement, but is willing to consider it. "Many of us are still feeling we don't have enough hard facts about what are the implications...