Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, the only option for those wishing to express their anger at Harvard's investment policy and to protest its fundraising practices is to give to E4D, which emphasizes the numbers who give rather than the number that they give. In the likely event that Harvard does not divest and apartheid does not end, the money in E4D will be given to Phillips Brooks House to aid its worthwhile endeavors in the Boston area...
...when asked about the vice- presidential nomination, Jackson said, "I certainly will have earned serious consideration," although he gave no indication that he wanted it. Then Campaign Manager Austin and Campaign Chairman Willie Brown talked to reporters about the second spot for Jackson as if it were a live option. Dukakis responded the next day by observing that being second banana in the nomination race carries no guaranteed prize...
Members of the council's academics committee criticized the faculty proposal, which would eliminate the option currently offered to honors seniors who are taking general examinations. These seniors are allowed to take an April hourly exam in place of the regularly scheduled final in courses being taken for concentration credit...
Faculty administrators said they were alsoconcerned that April testing policies are notuniform for different concentrations. CUEstatistics show that more than 80 percent of allstudents eligible for the exam option come fromonly six concentrations: Economics, English,Government, History, History and Literature, andSocial Studies...
...Obviously a large number of our constituentsare in favor of the testing policy, and we don'twant to deny them an option they've already beenformally granted," Todd Flynn '88, chairman of thecommittee, told the CUE. "The legislation shouldbe altered to solve any inequities, not dissolvedcompletely...