Word: membership
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Because the committee has not made a decision in 10 years, because its procedures are so vague, and because its membership changes every year, members of the community have no reason to trust the body or feel safe placing their Harvard careers it its hands...
...though its membership changes everyyear, will always, by its very nature, be biased against students. Since the CRR is only convened after the Faculty determines that freedom at the University has been threatened, students called before the body are already presumed guilty. Since the CRR refuses to discuss the fundamental issues raised in the student protest--in this case the University's $580 million in South Africa-related investments--it cannot adequately judge the students for their actions...
...then held three college presidencies: at his alma mater, Kansas State, until 1950; at Pennsylvania State (1950-56); and at Johns Hopkins (1956-67 and 1971-72). The genial, judicious administrator also held several part-time Government posts, among them Special Ambassador to Latin America and membership on twelve major Government commissions. He chaired five of them, notably the 1968 inquiry into the causes of violence after the King and Kennedy assassinations. Said his admiring brother: "I think I would rather take Milton's views than those of anyone else...
...central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching, research, and scholarship. By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change. The rights and responsibilities exercised within the community must be compatible with these qualities...
...results were soon evident. Within three hours the official news agency TASS announced that Gorbachev had increased the membership of the Central Committee's policymaking organ, the Politburo, from ten to 13. In the process, he diluted the influence of the Kremlin's Old Guard, which now constitutes less than half of the Politburo membership. He also mildly flouted Kremlin protocol by leapfrogging two of his nominees to full Politburo status without benefit of an interval of nonvoting candidate membership. Finally, in his plenum speech, Gorbachev reaffirmed that the infusion of new blood at the top was part and parcel...