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Today Harvard's Divinity School-founded as a separate institution on 1816-carries on many of the purposes and traditions of its predecessor. But silence on political and social issues is not one of them. Over the last few decades the Div School has emerged as a pocket of progressivism in a school long known for its traditional tastes...
Only last week, 200 members of the Div School's faculty, student body and staff-an over whelming majority of the institution-signed a statement calling for a world-wide freeze on nuclear weapons. The statement, addressed to the nation's religious community, appeared as an advertisement in a nationally circulated religious magazine. The Div School's populations-both faculty and students-has been at the forefront of many other progressive movements as well. Some of the school's professors accepted burnt draft cards at the pulpit during the Vietnam War; others have led the movement to integrate the woman...
...nearly every progressive cause on the national scene would find a group of active sympathizers on Divinity Ave In a time when Moral Majority and Christian fundamentalists dominate the nation's image of religion and hold powerful political away, the Div School is the odd kid on the block. The Rev Jerry Falwell would find no red carpet here...
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...previously reported, DeMuth's new milieu is the Office of Management and Budget, the nerve center of administration budget-slashing headed by David Stockman (Div School '70). DeMuth's title is administrator for information and regulatory affairs, and-a bonus-executive director of the President's "Task Force on Regulatory Relief...