Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue here is the University's own policy on discrimination against students because of sexual orientation. One hopes that the existence of such a policy precludes the need for any discussion on why gays, lesbians and bisexuals should not be discriminated against, yet once more we are asked to explain our position, our need for rights. We are asked to explain our existence. Surely we have gotten beyond this on the Harvard campus. All we should have to do is voice our complaint, pointing out the University's direct contradiction of itself...
Last night's eye-opener should put an end to the crimson's complacency. Why try to explain a jinx? It's like explaining the origin of the universe or the motivation behind the blue and white deodorant Stick-Ups the Eli fans threw onto the ice after Blaeser's first goal...
...Director William S. Sessions claims that the FBI usually surveys persons whom they have contacted for an investigation. This is true, but it does not explain why more than 100 of the 266 investigations performed under the Library Surveillance Program were librarians. Nor does it explain why the scrutiny of librarians began only after the program was exposed. At that time, some librarians became public opponents of the program, and thus the subject of FBI investigations...
When the heat from civil libertarians became too intense, Sessions went before the American Library Association to explain the FBI's policy. His speech was more hypocrisy than genuine contrition. At the same time he was soothing librarians fears of surveillance, Sessions was telling his agents to continue approaching librarians--but to be more discreet about it. Evidently, he thought the investigation more a public relations failure than a moral outrage...
More than 50 students and administrators attended a seminar on rape at the Cronkhite Graduate Center last night and listened to panelists explain the University's policies and procedures for helping victims of rape...