Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goals: Harvard goals. The Crimson did not place a player in the ECAC's top 25 scorers, but that didn't matter. This year, Coach Cleary has baked up one big goal cake and has given all his players a slice. When Harvard scores goals, it throws a birthday party...
...months now, the Board of Overseers has been trying to develop a position on divestment. This weekend a select committee of the Board will meet to decide whether the committee-as-a-whole has the power to vote on the matter at all. Instead of ensuring that this issue gets the deliberation it deserves, Steiner helped create an agenda front-loaded with lectures from pro-administration officials, leaving scant time for discussion among Board members...
...Wood said in a critical letter to Tom O'Donnell '47, the chair of the Institutional Policy Committee, "it is particularly important that the separate matter of Harvard's laudable (if small and long-delayed) scholarship and exchange efforts not be confused with divestment. The latter issue is of an entirely different magnitude, since fully 100 times as much money is involved...
...shanties in the middle of campus. In dignified financial circles, that can be written off to misguided youthful idealism. But to have your own Board of Overseers, distinguished business and political officials among Harvard's most prominent alumni, tell you your investment policies are misguided and immoral is another matter. Whether or not the Overseers' legal authority to force the University to divest is accepted, their moral authority cannot be ignored...
...president, who for better or worse has the ultimate authority over tenure disputes, could have helped forge the way by addressing such relevant policy questions as: Should ideology matter in tenure decisions? Could the Law School have enough scholars in CLS--the radical field of legal thought that has divided the faculty into fueding factions--or should each scholar be evaluated independently? What does it mean that many young scholars choose to employ the analytical tools of CLS in their research, and will the Law School be trapped in the past if it turns its back on CLS? Should tenure...