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...words here are recruiting and recruiters. The spirit of the resolution is not that first year honors should not be awarded or given to faculty members, but that recruiters should be encouraged to lessen the importance of first year grades in their hiring process. In an effort to assist the General Affairs Committee, the student government body, in their implementation of the resolution, recruiters were informed over the summer of the new student referendum. The Faculty did not and were not asked to sanction the non-disclosure of grades as an official School policy as was stated in the article...
...where in the resolution is it mentioned that the Faculty should not be given the list of first year honor students. In fact, it is necessary that faculty members receive a list of students who have been recommended for first year honors in order to officially vote honors. The General Affairs Committee was informed that the Faculty members would receive a list of first year honor recipients for the academic voting process...
...Given these facts, the professor had every right to release the names of the students who received first year honors. He did not breach any officially sanctioned policy of the Harvard Business School, and he did not violate the student resolution. He simply read the names of honor recipients in his own class to his own students, not recruiters or reporters. Quite appropriately, he sought to recognize, in a personal way, the outstanding achievement of his students. Such personal attention and caring in student/faculty relationships is strongly encouraged at the Business School...
When Dukakis announced his presidential bid in March 1987, he credited his support. In a speech aimed at Massachusetts residents he said: "It has been your successes, your values, your support and what we have achieved together that has given me this opportunity...
Alexander Yakovlev, 64. Ambassador to Canada for ten years, Yakovlev has been a key architect of the Gorbachev reform program. He was given a reorganized version of Dobrynin's Central Committee job dealing with foreign affairs. Promoted...