Word: neutralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the meeting, we presented Bok with a petition signed by over 3000 students urging the University to remain neutral during the union election. We told Bok that we understood the administration was within its legal rights to wage an anti-union campaign; we were asking the administration to hold itself to a higher standard. He quickly and unapologetically confirmed what we had feared--that despite what we are taught, moral pressure has no place in the grown-up world of university politics...
...considerable risk to their careers, 500 intellectuals, including Ba Jin, China's best-known writer, signed a letter denouncing Li and urging an end to press censorship. Until the hard-line faction emerged victorious, China's official press and television reported with neutral accuracy on the pro- democracy demonstrations. By contrast, last Friday's prime-time TV news was constricted to official statements of support for martial...
...University officials are again involved in silencing dissident voices on the Board of Overseers--this time by working to block their election. University officials must remain neutral in this and all succeeding overseers elections. Bok and the administration should be welcoming the democracy of the Board rather than shutting out its different voices...
Wolff, who called the text of Kennedy's letter"disingenuous and condescending," said he does notmind both sides campaigning openly, but added thatUniversity officials should remain neutral, asthey traditionally have...
Knute Knudson Jr., a student at the Kennedy School, said he found the discussion to be the "first time some of the information that I received had some neutral quality to it untainted by South African sources...