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...stay in South Africa, to work with the new elites and to aid in the revitalization of the nation's economy and of its people. Instead, if President Bok's admonishment to the community is still followed, the Corporation will again place profits above morality. If returns on investment diminish severely, the Corporation's response will probably be exactly that being urged upon today: it will divest, or vote for resolutions calling for withdrawal. The University community may suddenly find that the sale of $300 million in stock will not be as expensive as the cost of holding...
...acquisition of truth." His chief case in point: affirmative action programs affecting faculty hiring. Calling the power of faculty appointment the "most crucial" of academic matters, since it affects the quality of a university's research and teaching, Shils charges that Caesar "wishes to displace intellectual criteria and to diminish their importance in order to elevate ethnic and sexual criteria. [But] he has no right to intrude into the internal processes which enable universities to perform their proper functions; he has no right, although he might legislate that right for himself from now till doomsday, to suppress or cripple...
...normal, or at least socially acceptable behavior, in some patients, they also act as chemical restraints: they calm the schizophrenic but often turn him into little more than a zombie in the process. As Psychologist Steven Matthysse of the Mailman Research Center explains, while agitation and disordered thought diminish in the drugged patient, the drugs do very little to move the patient toward recovery or to help him relate to other people. Says Matthysse: "It's a sad thing, but a schizophrenic [on drugs] is very rarely motivated to do anything really consequential...
...SIDE FROM RESEARCH, another factor helps to explain Faculty reluctance to lead tutorials--the tutorial relationship itself whittles away at professors' exalted positions. Committee G recognized this pitfall back in the 1920s. The committee report said the effect of tutorials "will be to diminish the prestige of the teacher so far as this is an effect of distance and office. The tutorial calls for fraternity rather than paternalism...
Supporters of the Corporation's position hope to diminish support for divestiture by arousing fears over the cost of such action to the University. We have analyzed Harvard's estimates and have found them grossly exaggerated...