Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic year just past brought many far reaching changes to the Harvard community. A new President took office and began to mold the University in his own image. Protest, centering around the war and Harvard's ownership of Gulf Oil stock, disrupted the normal routine of the community...
...that large American corporations can be semi-democratic institutions. In a system where power is proportional to the money invested, the management of most large corporations make an elaborate effort to pretend that they are controlled in some small way by the people who share in corporate power through ownership of stock: yet in huge corporations (like Gulf) it is all but impossible for even relatively large stockholders (like Harvard) to effect changes in company policy through the normal channels of corporate elections and proxy decisions. And when institutional stockholders refuse even to join in a symbolic assertion of their...
...agency, the National Student Loan Marketing Association, would initially be Federally controlled, but eventually ownership would be shifted to the institutions involved, creating an avenue for new capital to enter the loan program without tapping the endowment...
...student strike against the war. Campus outrage against the latest escalation mounted as a plethora of committees was formed and House meetings called. The campus was swamped with posters and leaflets calling on students to respond to the President's arrogance; in addition, the controversy over Harvard's ownership of Gulf Oil stock was peaking, and the black students' protest fueled the growing activist mood...
...gunshots of May 15 ring out a few more notes in the swan song of democracy, I should think that both of the major parties' candidates would, if only for their own protection, summon the courage to stand up to the adherents of gun ownership and make meaningful federal gun control an issue in their respective campaigns...