Word: outspokenness
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Though these incidents sound disturbing, they are natural at a University that strives for diversity in its admissions program and--at least professedly--in its hiring policies. We have the tools to use our diversity as an intellectual community should. Our articulate, outspoken student body churns out letters and articles prolifically and engages in myriafd dining hall table conversations. Our administration, unlike Penn's, is reluctant to quash free expression, no matter who construes it as offensive...
Three months later, Hicks was fired by Harvard Dining Services (HDS) Director Michael P. Berry. Berry said Hicks was an unsatisfactory employee with a lengthy disciplinary history and a poor attendance record. Hicks fought back, accusing Berry of firing him because he was too outspoken...
Rudenstine arrived at Harvard in July 1991, ready to take charge of what he presumably saw as a very outspoken, liberal-leaning university. Just more than a year before his arrival, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences took a strong stance against the military's ban on gays, voting to sever all ties with ROTC...
...Williams hesitated to attribute the actions taken against Hicks and himself as strict instances of racism. "I'll say maybe it was a case of management wanting to get rid of people who were outspoken," he said...
Shop steward Mary A. Quinlan, who works in the Cabot House dining hall, said that even the labor union may have been motivated by a resistance to particularly "outspoken" employees...