Word: flows
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When President A. Lawrence Lowell (1877) created the house system in 1928, he envisioned the new complexes as places where academics and residential life would flow easily into one another, sparking discussion and breeding a young intelligentsia. By all accounts, this dream has never been a reality...
...threats to academic freedom and freedom of speech are overt, a la the rantings of Accuracy in Academia and other latter-day McCarthyites. In a report released last week, two Harvard officials make clear that the restrictions placed by the Reagan Administration on the free flow of information subtly have eroded "democratic values, freedom of speech, and the openness of U.S. society...
...Cambridge should not forget that the overarching concern of information policies should be the preservation of First Amendment rights. More than economic progress, our health as a society depends on free speech and academic freedom. If the Reagan Administration continues its short-sighted attempt to stop the free flow of information under the guise of national security, the result may well be a more stagnant, uncompetitive--and thus a less secure--America...
...goals of protecting our moderate Arab allies and insuring the free flow of oil are entirely legitimate. Unfortunately, the result of America's military presence in the Gulf has been increased warfare there and greater restlessness in Kuwait about her security. The only nation which seems to be gaining from American's protection of shipping is, ironically, Iran, which sends almost all of her oil out of the Gulf by supertanker...
National security interests combine with budgetary concerns to further limit the free flow of information. For the last seven years, the Defense Department and the intelligence services have broadened the classification system, expanded the controls on the publication of scientific research, and limited the exchange of knowledge with scholars overseas, the report says...