Word: denialism
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Sparked by the recent denial of a promotion to Assistant Professor Ethel Klein, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) has begun a new effort to pressure University officials to improve the status of Women's Studies at Harvard...
Young said that Klein's case is an "important rallying point" for the protests, but "the focus is not Ethel, but Women's Studies "In the letters, RUS officials criticize what they call the University's general disregard for Women's Studies, citing Klein's denial of promotion as an indication of a lack of commitment to the area...
...Kennedy School Monday evening, when Rev. Jerry Falwell spoke (or, as was often the case, attempted to speak). "Conduct unbecoming a Harvard student" is, I believe, still technically grounds for requirement to withdraw from the University; is Harvard, by its inaction in the fact of such blatant denial of constitutional liberties by members of the Harvard community, acknowledging that this behavior is within the bounds of conduct becoming a Harvard student...
...Symposium recommended the revision of public policy to bring it into line with medical understanding. Dr. Tod Mikuriya, formerly in charge of cannabis research for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), asserted that we have--"not a drug problem--we're dealing with a problem based upon ignorance, denial, hypocrisy, and special-interest greed." He recommended comprehensive drug law reform, including the "repeal of all exemptions from product liability laws for alcohol and tobacco," and having an assigned risk for the liabilities they cause. He also suggested a repeal of all excise taxes dealing with drugs and alcohol, saying...
...Senate subcommittee was far from totally satisfied with what Shultz offered. "We condemn their corruption and denial of human rights," said Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii about the Salvadoran government. "But these abominations still persist. Why do we not lower the boom?" Complained Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "El Salvador is just thumbing their nose at us. They're saying give us dollars and go to hell." Then the subcommittee, which has a 5-to-4 Republican majority, voted 7 to 2 to let the Administration shift the full $60 million to El Salvador, but only...