Word: denialism
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...alarums and excursions of the late 1960s," in Ptashne's words, quickly dried up a science fund drive that had just gotten underway. That, Ptashne says, was "denial number...
...large wing adjacent to the Biology labs went nowhere after potential government fund-donors insisted that Harvard first hire new professors for the building. Problem was, those same professors demanded guarantees that the University had procured funding for the new building it had promised--a classic catch-22. Denial number...
Last year may have shown some trend towards more genuine compliance: four previously all-male departments--English, History, Anthropology and Psychology--each hired a women for a tenured professorship. Such efforts should continue, and the current review by the administration of the Sociology Department, whose denial of tenure last year to Theda R. Skocpol, former associate professor of Sociology, seems to reflect sexism, conscious or otherwise, should be particularly exhaustive...
...Faculty Council quashed the request of the Gay Students Association (GSA) for such a policy late last spring; that denial came just months after administrators stopped the GSA from including leaflets in spring term registration packets by discovering a new policy forbidding student groups from distributing leaflets in the packets. In both cases, the University stopped GSA members from asserting their rights with particularly fallacious justification...
...Faculty Council quashed the request of the Gay Students Association (GSA) for such a policy late last spring; that denial came just months after administrators stopped the GSA from including leaflets in spring term registration packets by discovering a new policy forbidding student groups from distributing leaflets in the packets. In both cases, the University stopped GSA members from asserting their rights with particularly fallacious justification...