Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freedom of scholars to express ideas and exchange them with colleagues is essential to the operation of universities in the United States and to maintaining the high quality of academic research. Academic freedom is rooted in the First Amendment to the Constitution, the same provision that protects the right of people to speak freely and the freedom of the media to report events as they see them...
...members of the Coordinating Committee of the Endowment for Divestiture (E4D), we would like to express our differences with Ms. Klegar and Mr. Keane on one other point. They assert that there is no contradiction-in giving to both funds. We disagree. In believing that contributions to the Harvard College Fund indicate tacit support of the University's current South Africa investment policy, we call upon seniors to examine the merits of the issues involved and to consider denating to Harvard only through the Endowment for Divestiture. We sincerely hope that this money will go towards undergraduate education. The money...
...rabbits and casseroles. The Italians, little eggs. Nigerians refer to lovers as tigers, which is understandable, and as bedbugs, which are evidently cuter in Nigeria than they are elsewhere. The Chinese use the term little dog, and the Germans, little treasure. Littleness is the key to many of these expressions. For some reason the tendency in the language of love is to make less of the object of one's affections; it is quite common in most languages to add a diminutive suffix to a name (in Russian, ya, in Greek, oula, in Irish, een) so as to express fond...
This year, as noted in the Progress Report, Harvard has also written to each company in its portfolio that is doing business in South Africa urging management to express active opposition to South Africa's influx control laws--the cornerstone of apartheid--and to undertake action to try to assure that black employees' families will be allowed to live with them near their places of work. In addition, the University has begun to seek information on portfolio companies' sales to the South African government, with special emphasis on sales to the police, military, and other agencies directly enforcing apartheid...
...country are indissolubly linked together, and the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be placed under the sanction of law." The spirit of Harlan's dissent underlies our commitment as a university to oppose discrimination and exploitation based on race and to express that opposition in ways appropriate to an educational institution...