Word: membership
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...Board today, the Galbraith incident provides a useful milestone in the history of government at Harvard. A Board comprised of staunch clergymen when it was created in 1642 has over the intervening three and a half centuries acquired a much more diverse complexion--now sporting a wide membership that includes Blacks, women, businessmen, and academics...
...council's most important avenue for influencing the administration is membership on prominent student-faculty committees. Council members hold five seats on each of three committees--the Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Committee on Housing Life and the Committee on College Life...
Your story on the National Academy of Science's refusal to grant membership to a political scientist ((EDUCATION, May 11)) has helped perpetuate the myth that physical scientists are totally objective in their work. Obviously, you have not noticed how physicists mold their positions on the feasibility of President Reagan's Star Wars program to correlate with their political ideologies. While the scientific merit of Political Scientist Samuel Huntington's work is debatable, Mathematician Serge Lang's comments on that work reveal considerable ignorance about the nature of science. This is not surprising. Though mathematics is the language of science...
...many store owners argue that they do everything they can to keep young customers from renting violent videos. Some keep offensive titles in a separate room, while others insist that parents specify on membership cards which films their children are allowed to take home. "It's really the parents' job to police what their kids watch," says Mark Hooper, video manager of a Sound Warehouse outlet in Memphis. "About all we can do is not stock titles that we know are going to cause trouble...
...worldwide chapters of the Rotary International are not all that private. That was one reason why last week the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the use of a state antidiscrimination law to bar Rotary International from ousting a California chapter that had admitted women. Noting the clubs' sizable membership, turnover rate and public activities, Justice Lewis Powell concluded that "the relationship among Rotary Club members is not the kind of intimate or private relation that warrants constitutional protection." About 30 states have laws similar to California's. The Justices said other organizations will be considered on a case-by-case...