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...time a Soviet leader had ever encountered so prominent a dissident face to face. The exchange took place at the Kremlin, where Gorbachev was receiving members of an international peace and human rights group. Sakharov, whom Gorbachev had freed from internal exile in 1986, handed the Soviet leader a list of 200 political prisoners whose release he sought. Apparently impressed with Gorbachev's openness, Sakharov later declared, "This kind of leader is needed in a great country at such a decisive moment in history." Coming from one of the best-known victims of Soviet repression, that was quite an endorsement...
...Both sides articulated very forceful positions," he said, adding that because the faculty speakers list is unusually long, there will be no vote on the program for at least a month...
Outside yesterday's meeting, almost 100 students, including members of the Black Student Union and a campus Hispanic group, held a silent vigil in favor of the change. Many students held posters with the name of a book and an author not included in the program's core list of 15 books, Katz said...
Faculty members who support changing the requirement said that the reading list, which includes only works by white men, is inherently biased against women and minorities...
...faculty members against changing the requirement said that the works now included on the reading list are truly the best works that one can read...