Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While choosing St. Paul's had been difficult the decision to go to college in the United States was never a big dilemma Sweeney's older brother had attended Brown, where he played two years of hockey...
...relevance to the University as a stockholder, but also a chance to gain insight into the ways in which an influential institution reacts to an emotionally charged issue that poses a challenge to the very world view of the institution's chief officers. I am speaking of the dilemma that the seven Harvard Corporation members face in deciding how to handle the University's investments in companies doing business in South Africa...
...Harvard's South Africa policy represents an area in which the Committee conducts real research and provides a valuable counseling service to the University. However, the South Africa question is very complex and fraught with emotional reactions. It is also the most enduring and important moral and political dilemma to have faced the University in recent years. Under the circumstances, it is imperative that President Bok and the Corporation take every necessary step to insure the impartiality and legitimacy of their advisory body in the eyes of the public. The President and the Corporation have failed to fulfill this responsibility...
Given the dilemma in which Scudder may have found itself following the Michigan State directive, we can see how President Bok may not receive the full range of advice regarding the financial attractiveness of the various options on divestiture from this year's ACSR, at least as far as the alumni financial experts are concerned. However, President Bok should know that there are Harvard alumni ae with strong backgrounds in finance who believe firmly that divestiture would not have to harm the University portfolio's standing...
...confess I don't have any grand solution, to the dilemma I have been describing, perhaps chiefly because it involves attitudes and thus is not susceptible to quick administrative fixes. The best we can do. I think, is continually to question the assumptions that under he our politics. Why is it that we claim to believe X? Are we willing personally to be accountable to the logical extension of a particular policy? The more we force ourselves to undergo this kind of scrutiny, the more truly we adhere to what the ideals of a Harvard liberal education are all about...