Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impact of the SASC report became obvious after an intensive follow-up campaign convinced a number of key faculty members and Black South African leaders that the internship program must be re-evaluated. The significance of the controversy, however, goes well beyond the score card between SASC and Harvard and has highlighted fundamental problems with Harvard's attitude toward politically sensitive issues...
While February's highly publicized Festival of Life may have led many people at Harvard to consider the impact of the AIDS crisis for the first time, the threat of the disease is nothing new to the Harvard gay community. For some, the specter of AIDS has dramatically altered individual mind sets as well as behavior...
...report describes the educational programs, student, faculty and staff activity, and the university's investment policy as the three ways in which Harvard has had an impact on the South African situation...
...court's latest actions will hardly dampen official antiporn efforts. Indeed, as part of the ongoing work of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, Edwin Meese last week approved a new $100,000 study of porn's antisocial impact. But the court did seem to signal what it believes is a constitutional approach. As UCLA Law Professor Henry McGee describes it, the emerging doctrine appears to be "If people want it, they can have it. But they shouldn't subject everyone else...
...This function is totally extricated from the departmental evaluation processes. There is strict confidentiality, and no reports or tapes are sent to professors or deans. Our evaluation has no impact on hiring decisions. The process is only to benefit the teachers...