Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signed by the 18 members of the IRC's board of directors as well as four other women members of the IRC, was written in response to rumors circulated by some male members that women in IRC executive positions got elected by granting sexual favors to men in leadership posts, David Furth '79, IRC president, said yesterday...
Would all this dissent have much effect on the party leadership? Not immediately. Commenting on Marchais's speech, L 'Humanité insisted that the address proved that "serious, interesting and positive discussion is unfolding within our party." Marchais himself, when he first heard the rumblings within his ranks, magnanimously announced that "no heads would roll" because of it. That seems a safe bet in his own case, since no one expects any changes in the rigid party leadership any time soon. But if the party continues to learn nothing and forget nothing about the changing shape of France...
Today Harvard regrettably appears content with the status quo, confident that Harvard parents will sacrifice anything. As an alumnus, I find this position hubristic. As an educational administrator, I hope Harvard will revive the leadership role in financing higher education demonstrated by its own Medical School a decade ago. Bayler F. Mason '51 Special assistant to the president, Boston University
What is the essence of leadership if not the willingness to rise above self-interest, expedient policies, and situational ethics? Simply put, based on the South Africa decision one could carve a university president out of a banana with more backbone than Derek Bok. That decision is couched in corporate double-think that makes impossible any clear interpretation of its deliberately complex guidelines on supporting shareholder resolutions. In addition, the gibberish that owning non-voting stock in banks that loan money to South Africa or its public corporations is less reprehensible than owning voting stock is both analytically and morally...
...majority." Clearly, President Bok is not such a man. He has spoken with style but without substance; hence, his plan is one of stunning gutlessness. Clearly, students should not expect anything more from President Bok than competent administration in carrying out his more routine duties--he has abdicated any leadership role he could hope to have played on any issue of student concern. Students can only take comfort that we are members of the University and not of the Corporation. Richard D. Bernstein...