Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Harvard students who object to the "honoring" of Charles Engelhard (a true honor does not require a donation) also want Harvard to sell immediately and totally any stock held in banks or companies that do business with South Africa. They also want the U.S. companies in South Africa to leave. There are questions that need to be asked about the possible consequences of these positions...
...acknowledge the consequences of what they do or propose and the oppressed don't need friends with the moral consistency of the Kennedy School students who advocate the renaming of their library even if the Engelhard Foundation's money is not returned. If not reminded, they don't object to sharing in the fruits of alleged exploitation...
...Soviet Union. A delegation from the commune talked twice with Feodor Timofeyev, the Soviet press attache in Georgetown, about a possible move, but a memo of that meeting shows the Russians offered little encouragement. Russian consular officials and a Russian doctor also visited Jonestown, which was the object of a favorable report by Tass. In the past few months, Russian language classes were held at the commune. Members had to recite Russian phrases, like "good morning," before receiving their rice-and-gravy meals...
...Chief object of the board's current scrutiny is Chicago's first citywide school desegregation program, which was unveiled earlier this year by Hannon, 46, a feisty and effective administrator who took office in 1975 after serving as one of the city's assistant superintendents. Hannon's plan, known as Access to Excellence, avoids mandatory busing. Instead, it permits pupils to transfer to any Chicago school with vacancies if the transfer aids desegregation. More significant, ATE seeks integration by creating magnet schools that offer advanced programs to qualified students who live anywhere in the city...
More than 15 years after a battered old coin was discovered in an ancient Indian rubbish heap near the coastal town of Blue Hill, it was belatedly identified by scholars as a Norse artifact dating back to the 11th century-making it the oldest European object ever found in the U.S. What is more, the find reopened all the old arguments about who really discovered America: Columbus or some Viking predecessors...