Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not to say the faculty is blameless. The faculty union should have shown more restraint during the negotiations. In particular, the union should have delayed the strike until it was absolutely certain that the trustees' objections to the contract were unresolvable. Still, it is understandable if the faculty at times overreacted--members had been trampled upon so frequently they felt it necessary to assert themselves...
...strike, of course, is a no-win situation. Each day Boston University remains closed costs the school huge amounts of money, and deprives the students of the education for which they have paid. The administration should ratify the negotiated contract, and avoid exacerbating the conflict needlessly. In particular, the support shown for the faculty by clerical and library workers should be respected by the administration. Further intransigence or retributive actions on the part of the administration will lead only to more trouble...
...defense is an absolute denial of the charges," says Foley. "There is no evidence against Bobby. He was held in Viet Nam against his will." Foley says that Garwood was shot during his capture and "surrounded by death" during the 14 years he spent in Viet Nam. "One particular P.O.W. death still overwhelms Bobby," says Foley. "He still has trouble talking about it, but when the story comes out it will greatly help explain what he did during those 14 years...
First, a "compact" requires more than one party. Persons and corporations in the private sector regularly use their economic leverage to influence the activities of our universities through their decisions--either not to attend or support particular ones, or to support them for specific purposes. Corporate leadership is more sensitive than ever about the support of institutions which, in their judgement, are improperly critical of their ethical practices or "capitalistic," free enterprise premises...
...then-President Pusey '28 assigned the Committee on University Relations with Corporate Enterprise, chaired by Robert W. Austin, the task of "examining and clarifying the relationship of universities (and in particular this University) with corporate enterprise in general in the United States," in order to "recommend ways in which universities and corporate enterprise can work together for constructive social purpose...