Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong. Using the formal educational structure of class schedules to coerce participation is doubly wrong. If the accounts in The Crimson are correct, some students felt coerced. If they wished to go to their own section at their scheduled time, they ran the risk of seeming to support a particular demonstration. Some were subsequently photographed in that context. If even one student felt coerced, the action was wrong. Majority votes are not enough when the rights of individuals are involved...
...faculty seminar on assessment under the leadership of Professor Richard Light, an expert in problems of evaluation. This seminar, which will include representatives from other universities, will consider the current state of educational research. In time, it will also design and sponsor some specific projects to investigate issues of particular interest to Harvard and similar institutions...
...members of The Open University are very concerned by David Rettig's letter to The Crimson yesterday. We do not believe that any student should be coerced, explicitly or otherwise, into taking any particular political stance. The purpose of The Open University is to make students aware of the world in which they live and of the way decisions are made at Harvard. Working for divestment has shown us a more fundamental problem at Harvard: that all final authority to make policy decisions rests in the hands of seven people. The Harvard Corporation (a group of seven men, all white...
...zoning amendment is designed "to respond to the unique problems and pressures for change particular to the Harvard Square area," the proposal says. "The regulations provide for more careful public scrutiny of development proposals that may alter the established urban form of the Harvard Square area...
...There is something for everyone," Harvard's Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill said at the hearing last night. "No one particular interest group gets whatever he or she wants and that's probably the definition of fairness...