Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's more, the committee narrowly defeated a recommendation that Harvard divest totally, the first full divestiture motion ever to reach the ACSR's table. In other words, the committee is finally working itself around to the conclusion that the Corporation can't be reasoned with on this topic. Even so-called moderate positions on the subject hold no water with the governing board, which has so sharply limited the realistic terms of debate that anything beyond discussing innocuous shareholder resolutions is on the radical fringe...
Under the terms of the motion, the president would recommend to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at a meeting on May 9 that it establish a faculty/student committee to review the tenure process at Tufts...
That, even more than any backlash against Spielberg, seemed to be the reason for Gandhi's success: all appearances to the contrary, the 3,953 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences like to think of themselves as responsible citizens. Given the choice between a serious movie and one that is merely entertaining, they will almost always choose the former. Examples in the past: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest over Jaws (1975) and Gentleman's Agreement over Miracle on 34th Street...
That evening, after narrowly defeating a motion to occupy University Hall three times, about 300 students stormed Pusey's home University Police were stationed at the gate across from the Freshman Union and on the driveway of the President's house, but the students overcame them and continued up the drive...
Pipes recalls that he agreed with Pusey, but acknowledges that campus sentiment overwhelmingly opposed the President. The fact that the Faculty motion contradicted the law seemed inconceivable to Pipes at the time. "The notion that colleges and universities are a law upto themselves is pernicious and extremely non-democratic," he says...