Word: linings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carefully toeing a middle line, however, the council frequently found ways not to isolate any constituency. Its final club resolution, for example, passed the week after elections, stopped short of calling for the abolition of the clubs, as many anti-final club activists urged. Instead, it explicitly recognized the clubs' right to exist while urging them to eliminate discrimination...
...quality led to Ocasio's appearance on the front line of Harvard activism, it was his ability to confidently articulate what roles minorities should be playing on campus...
...Because the numbers are so low Harvard has toestablish a policy," Ocasio says, giving anelemental example. "But I know that Harvard mightfeel undue pressure because the quotas or numericgoals might sacrifice the quality and I know thatif I take such a hard line that they might nottake me seriously. So I might suggest somethingelse...
Only eight weeks ago, the six-member Nominating Committee was poised to tap Peter C. Goldmark '62, a former student activist who is currently president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Many overseers, who say there is pressure on the Board to toe the University line, typified Goldmark as a leader who would have been more willing to enourage debate and dissension on the 30-member, alumni-elected Board...
...states and commitments, no longer concerned with a diverse faculty or a student say in University policy. Others sank into harried East Coast jobs, working at the office well past nine at night, shielded by layers of secretaries. For almost all, Harvard was reduced to a line on a resume, a loan to repay, an annual fundraising plea, some drunken anecdotes, a few bad memories...