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...generating huge cash flows through on-the-air fund raising. Doctrinaire Protestantism is bursting beyond church walls into the wider society. Not since the 1920s have political Fundamentalists been as well financed, visible, organized and effective. Deeply committed believers, working long and zealously, get tavern hours trimmed in Anchorage; disrupt school-board meetings in Hillsboro, Mo., as they demand to control curriculum; force doctors to stop performing abortions in Virginia Beach, Va.; march in San Antonio streets to protest sex channels on cable TV. The shelves of religious bookstores are filled with their social protests, in which the buzz words...
Domenic M. Bozzotto, the head of the union representing the food service workers, said he has gathered about 50 signatures on letters he will eventually present to Saltonstall. The letters, which are being distributed at the Faculty Club door, "urge [Saltonstall] to reconsider this University decision which will disrupt the lives of these dedicated workers and bring strangers into the club...
...supposed to punish students who disrupt the "essential processes" of the University or violate the freedom of speech or the freedom of movement of other persons at the University, according to its founding document. However, as the historical record shows, the tribunal has served mainly to punish political radicals who gain a following worthy of being called a "movement...
...Harvard University officials point to that strike as an example of the way a clerical and technical union can disrupt the serene atmosphere necessary for an academic community...
...vice president and general counsel says he and other too administrators oppose a clerical and technical union at Harvard because "there has been a history of devisiveness caused by unions at universities." Also, since clerical workers are closer to research activities than other workers, that kind of union could disrupt academics much easier, says Steiner. "Compensations, benefits and working conditions are good at Harvard," says the vice president...