Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coed world. Women are often trapped within or between roles imposed on them by society. So are men. (Nonetheless, I'd be interested to see how many men feel repressed, alienated and anguished because they have been deprived of being househusbands.) The best way to combat stereotypes is through direct involvement with society as a whole...
...introducing five different AIDS bills that call for, among other things, mandatory testing for homeless people seeking Government-funded medical treatment and making it a felony for people with the AIDS virus to donate blood, semen or organs knowingly. Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus has begun a direct-mail fund-raising drive on the issue. Other groups have begun lobbying on the Hill and in their communities. H. Edward Rowe, president of the Christian Mandate for America, has established the National AIDS Prevention Institute...
...military victories and popular support in Nicaragua has resulted in fitful and inconsistent support from Congress. That has made it difficult for the contras to do more than irritate the Sandinistas. Now, just as the contras seem ready to galvanize their military efforts with a new supply of direct U.S. aid, they find themselves caught in the undertow of Iranscam, with their support in Washington again ebbing away...
...gather, from yesterday's Crimson editorial that a fuss is being made about the tenure process. The people fussing are divided into two camps: those that want direct student involvement in the tenure process, and those who don't. Those who side with student involvement want to make "teaching ability" a more weighty consideration in tenure decisions. Those who side against student involvement don't think students are capable of contributing to an intelligent tenure decision...
...calls for select groups of students to join Harvard's full professors, leading experts from outside, and the University's president in discussing the professional attainments of scholars bidding for tenure. Unfortunately for the plan's future, however, Harvard faculty members are quite confident of their fitness to direct the development of their own academic fields and jealously guard appointments even against leading colleagues elsewhere when they take an interest in Harvard appointments. And if outside experts aren't often welcomed, how can the council seriously suggest that undergraduates be invited to take part? The plan's greatest effect likely...