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Harvard fought the four year campus-wide organizing drive all along the way--marshalling supervisors, top administrators and President Bok in the effort. It's time to heal the divisions, not exacerbate them with an appeal...
Sophocles wrote of an archer named Philoctetes, who was bitten by a serpent and whose wound would not heal. His countrymen were so discomforted by his injury and his anguished cries that they marooned the war hero on a desolate island. That is one way to deal with the suffering: remove them from sight. There are many like Philoctetes in America, citizens cast out from public consciousness because their medical problems seem too painful or costly to face. Among them: 37 million Americans who have no health insurance, a million young women too poor to provide adequate prenatal care...
...letters to the faculty committee, students emphasized the need for a new dean to serve as "peacemaker" to heal the divisions within the faculty over Critical Legal Studies, a nontraditional, left-leaning school of legal thought, and campus concerns over hiring more women and minority faculty, Clark said...
...tides were running against all three. As a shy, uncertain young man, he was torn between the dictates of his proper upbringing and the tug of his emotions. He looked inward and saw himself coming apart; he looked outward and saw Western civilization dissolving into chaos. He tried to heal these rifts with words: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons . . . April is the cruellest month . . . I will show you fear in a handful of dust . . . This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper . . . And let my cry come unto Thee...
...choice of a new dean has been deemed critical to the future of the school, which has been shaken by ideological battles among its faculty in recent years. While the appointment may help heal these rifts, some at the school have expressed concern that the appointment process itself may only perpetuate division...