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...Powers, then director of employee relations, and it cautioned them to "think carefully" before signing a union card under District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America. District 65, the letter said, has engaged in "scare tactics" in its unionizing drives both on the main campus and in the Med area, and has "tried to make Harvard look like a criminal" by "distorting or misrepresenting facts" in its newsletters to Harvard workers...
Leaders of worker groups both on the main campus and the Med area spent over a week formulating responses to the Powers blast. Those responses, which appear in the most recent set of employee newsletters, attack Powers for treating District 65 as a "disembodied" entity on campus, and ignoring the fact that the newsletters are written by Harvard workers, and not by outside union organizers...
...high-minded theories of education are not much use to young people thinking about bread and butter. Inside the colleges, anxious students have often become prematurely professionalized and disturbingly competitive. At New York's Columbia University, for example, one-third of the freshmen have enrolled in pre-med courses. "As Americans, we really prize a degree, but I'm not sure we prize an education," muses Georgetown Dean Royden B. Davis...
Keenan says he agrees with the Med School's decision last month to sever its ties with an elite medical center in Iran because, in his words, "it was a medical care facility for people who already have enough medical care." But he says the politics of the grad school, which will be composed of 40 per cent social and natural science courses and 20 per cent medical services, pose no such problems. And he doesn't seem too worried about preserving free speech within the class room. "No prudent person would attempt to predict how individuals will behave...
Mortimer Litt, assistant dean of resources at the Medical School, yesterday said the Med School would wait for new municipal regulations before changing its current waste dmsposal policy...