Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIVESTMENT and the debate surrounding it at Harvard and elsewhere has made clear that many people take no moral stance when economic issues are at stake. But whether divestment from companies operating in south Africa or sanctions work to end apartheid or not, all of us must realize that a moral question exists that overrides economic and professional concerns...
Equally offensive is the inclusion of Professor Alan Heimert '49, director of the South Africa Fellows Program, on the agenda. Heimert lost the credibility to speak with any moral authority on Harvard's relations with South Africa when, along with Steiner, he designed the ill-fated internship program to send Harvard students to teach in South African schools. After coming under attack from Black South African leaders for failing to include Blacks in the decision-making process and for not reaching Black South Africans with the internships, the University scrapped the program...
...youthful idealism. But to have your own Board of Overseers, distinguished business and political officials among Harvard's most prominent alumni, tell you your investment policies are misguided and immoral is another matter. Whether or not the Overseers' legal authority to force the University to divest is accepted, their moral authority cannot be ignored...
...unknown resident's actions points to the serious moral and ethical questions of euthanasia. What has upset many doctors is the resident's decision to kill Debbie without attempting to allieviate her pain or without consulting her doctor or family. The American Medical Association's official guidelines say that physicians may withhold life-sustaining treatment under certain circumstances, but should never cause death intentionally. But as Debbie's case shows us, the line between the two has become fuzzy...
Despite several coup attempts and continuing political uncertainty, Aquino remains ensconced in Malacanang Palace and has developed a firmer grip on power. Yet her supporters are not convinced that the President will be able to correct long-standing social inequities or steer the Philippines out of moral drift. "Merely staying in power without changing anything is retrogression in itself," Historian Renato Constantino recently wrote in the Philippine Daily Globe. "Personal success is not synonymous with national success...