Word: formality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...currently being considered by the CRR, a judiciary body which can independently administer the full range of University punishments--except dismissal and expulsion, which require approval from the full Faculty. But students complaining of violations of their rights had no independent authority to which they could appeal. The only formal channel for their complaints was the COI, a body whose function, according to the Handbook for Students, is to "re-direct [complaints] to the appropriate agency of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences" but which has "no power to make rulings...
...report released this week reveals that two formal complaints of sexual harassment--one in the College and one in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--were reported last year. The individuals filing formal complaints seek both a formal investigation and University discipline of the alleged offender. The report did not specify which department was involved in each of the incidents...
Which Reagan will go to the summit in Geneva this November? Unless he was simply trying to keep a lid on expectations for the meeting, the President last week seemed to drop a strong hint that it would be the ideologue. At his first formal press conference since undergoing surgery for cancer last July, Reagan declared that he would not abandon his cherished Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), better known as Star Wars, in exchange for cuts, however large, in the Soviet nuclear arsenal...
Finally, during the past year, Harvard has written to all companies in the portfolio with operations in South Africa calling on them not to support apartheid directly by the sale of goods or services that are of significant value to the South African government. We have now developed a formal University policy on this issue, based in part on company responses to our inquiries and in part on recommendations recently prepared by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. We will shortly announce policy changes consistent with our belief that American companies should not be engaged in supplying goods of strategic...
...regional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) director denied District 65's request for recognition as an acceptable bargaining unit for the 800 Medical Area clerical and technical employees. The decision upheld Harvard's contention that the employees should seek a University-wide clerical union. It also made a formal union election impossible...