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According to Beyond the Ivory Tower, collective political statements issued by university officials or faculty members should be avoided unless the matter bears directly on the principle of academic freedom or the preservation of a democratic society on which free universities depend. President Bok derives his rationale from the doctrine of institutional neutrality. He means not neutrality in the pejorative sense of collaboration with evil through passivity, but neutrality in the strict sense of refraining from the use of "non-academic methods such as divesting stock, boycotting suppliers, or issuing formal political statements on political issues...
...rate, the trust fund on which 31.6 million pension checks are drawn every month will be nearly empty by July 1, 1983. Social Security checks would have to be held up until additional taxes could be collected, and that could take weeks, during which the elderly, many of whom depend on those checks for most or all of their income, would fall behind in paying rent, food and fuel bills...
...500ft., ocean life that does not depend...
...earth's internal heat. Explains Marine Microbiologist Holger Jannasch of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution, which operates the Alvin: "If the sun didn't shine any more, these deep-sea populations would still be growing, while we and all the green plants would die. They depend only on Mother Earth...
...unknown wonders: white eellike fish that hover around the scorching vents. For lack of a better name, the scientists have labeled them "21-degree-north vent fish" (after the latitude of the site). Researchers believe the vent fish may be the first vertebrate discovered whose existence does not ultimately depend upon sunlight...