Word: mergers
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Open Question. Coggan supported Ramsey's Methodist merger plan, and he now sees that effort as part of a "larger unity program" encompassing all Christians. Indeed, his own Call to the North program involves 52 denominational leaders, including Catholics and Salvation Army workers, who meet regularly at York to discuss how best to spread the word of God. Coggan appears receptive to the ordination of women, a practice that has never occurred in Anglicanism except for a handful of cases in Hong Kong. "It is now an open question," Coggan says. "The emotions are less and the intelligent approach...
...holds a doctorate in public administration and is one of eight women members in Egypt's 360-seat Parliament. An active feminist, she held her own in a remarkable debate last year with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who had come to Cairo to explore the possibilities of a merger between Egypt and Libya. Takla, who is married to Police General and Criminologist Karim Darwish, rebutted Gaddafi's chauvinistic brand of Islamic fundamentalism by arguing that it reduced women to a secondary role. When Gaddafi protested that women were weak, Takla retorted that "only in weak societies are women...
Barbara Voss, vice president of AHA, said yesterday the meeting will attempt to inform alumni of the "best educational solutions open to men and women in the college." Merger will not be the main topic of discussion, though it will come up in specific contexts, Voss said...
...This is not a meeting about merger. Merger is a financial and administrative arrangement," Voss said. "We will be discussing educational solutions. If you can decide educational needs, then you can decide financial and administrative needs," she said...
...KING' COLLINS and his friends became public figures in Cambridge on March 4, 1969--a week after Radcliffe proposed merger with Harvard, a month before the Strike began, the same day the Faculty voted not to let students on the Fainsod Committee studying university governance. Collins was a former graduate student in social sciences from Columbia University's Teachers College who had helped occupy Columbia's Fayerwether Hall in 1968, and he started his Harvard career by attending a meeting of Social Relations 153, where Alex Inkeles, then associate professor of Sociology, was lecturing on juvenile delinquency. Collins told...