Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Membership on the ACSR not only afforded the opportunity to learn about the South Africa question and other ethical matters of relevance to the University as a stockholder, but also a chance to gain insight into the ways in which an influential institution reacts to an emotionally charged issue that poses a challenge to the very world view of the institution's chief officers. I am speaking of the dilemma that the seven Harvard Corporation members face in deciding how to handle the University's investments in companies doing business in South Africa...
...never included a woman or minority representative, and some feel that the governing body lacks the sensitivity to certain issues that such members might provide. And in light of the planned retirements of Calkins and Andrew Heiskell, pressure to break the all-male, all-white legacy of Corporation membership will probably continue to be felt...
...interviews in the past, members have acknowledged the issue and said they support opening membership to a woman or minority. At the same time though. Calkins has cautioned against over tokenism, saying there shouldn't-be a specifically female or minority slot reserved. Heiskell said in a Crimson interview last year that the Corporation has made a concerted effort in recent years, but says. "Unfortunately, one of the qualifications of being on the Corporation is having the time and energy to do it. If you go to a successful Black lawyer, the chances of his-being able to give that...
...until in 1983 the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary voted to train and ordain women. Last week, with the first female seminarian about to graduate, the cycle was completed when the Rabbinical Assembly, the organization of Conservative rabbis in the U.S. and Canada, announced it would admit to membership anyone ordained by the seminary, male or female...
...ordination is Amy Eilberg, 30. "The long vigil is over," she said gratefully. During the next few years she will be followed by 18 other women now in the rabbinical program at the New York City seminary, the only such school in the Conservative branch. Eilberg's assembly membership provides critical recognition for her as a Conservative rabbi. The rabbi-to-be, who is married to a religion scholar, is considering a hospital chaplaincy or a job at a synagogue in southern Indiana near her home. The Conservatives' change "creates a synthesis of Jewish tradition and contemporary reality that...