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...Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, reproduced in the 1988-89 Handbook for Students states "the University [is a] community ideally characterized by free expression,...respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change." And yet the University invests its image and considerable endowment in South Africa, supporting a regime that denies Blacks these same rights to free expression, respect for their dignity, and the openness for changing the aparthied system...
...Handbook for Students also devotes a page-and-a-half to a discourse on the evils of discrimination, including sexual discrimination. It expects students to "exhaust institutional routes for complaints before seeking legal redress under public law." Yet the University did not fulfil its moral obligation to fight discrimination by failing to endorse Lisa Schkolnick's legal complaint against the Fly Club when her options here were closed...
...great wealth or spectacular achievement (in fact, you're all invited for a ride on my yacht someday, right after my Nobel prize party), but what I do resent is the obligation that's implied by a Harvard degree. It's as if the rules in the student handbook read, "no boistorous games in the Yard, no hanging posters with nails, and no post-graduate incomes below $25,000 the first year unless attending law or med school...
Have to wonder how some Ivy League schools are spontaneous in their cheering and others need to have a handbook...
...obligations. Such benefits, they expect, will raise productivity, reduce absenteeism and allow them to hang on to valued employees who might otherwise quit. Travelers Corp. has offered lunchtime support groups, flextime hours and an information fair for employees to meet with social service experts. PepsiCo provides seminars and a handbook on care of the elderly. Remington Products Inc., of Bridgeport, Conn., pays half the cost of parent sitters who can take over for employees on evenings and weekends...