Word: moral
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Harvard still refuses to divest from corporations doing business in South Africa. Instead of making the morally right move, it hides behind half arguments and makeshift programs, saying that the University needs to maintain a voice in that nation. Well, why don't they invest more in such corporations and gain a larger voice? Because even the administration knows that would be immoral. Divestment is difficult and will require time and energy, but such is the nature of moral choices...
Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanity Robert Coles '50, who supervised Cruz's independent research in the Sociology Department, says that Cruz has helped educate Harvard students. "Remy gave Harvard and example of someone who wants to offer a personal, individual, and moral example to lots of kids who need it and to other Harvard students," Coles says...
Fourth, bring a modicum of morality into your decision-making process. You didn't have to take a Moral Reasoning course for nothing, although that's a thought that might come to mind when looking at Harvard. The University administration only reacts to pressure from the outside before examining the moral aspects of its decisions. It took a year of excessive student pressure in the late '70s before Harvard even considered creating a body to advise it on shareholder responsibility...
...think over the course of the four yearswe've lost sight of our overarching goal of makingHarvard a more democratic and moral place," saysNussbaum, the last member of the First Generation."I think we've failed in the last four years tomake Harvard any more democratic...
...also been shaped by the philosophy of the French Jesuit and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, whose writings were suppressed by the church until after his death in 1955. Until the early 1960s, Cuomo accepted the teaching of the priests at St. John's that life was a moral obstacle course, a treacherous interval between birth and eternity. But in the '60s, Cuomo says, he was liberated by the discovery of Teilhard's Divine Milieu (a book he has "dipped into 100 times"), in which the Jesuit propounded the philosophy that God made man to embrace the world rather than...