Word: platformization
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...this, Seidman was elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers in 1986 on a pro-divestment platform. It was a time-consuming commitment for a Ph.D. candidate and anti-apartheid activist to take on, but she agreed to try because Harvard’s stance on divestment was used as a model for universities across the country. In her six years as an overseer, she was not able to get Harvard to divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa, but her term paved the way for the election of Bishop Desmond Tutu and others sympathetic...
...that put eight bullets in his left side, Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, was ready to party. At his first outing in 1998, at the posh Jadriyah Equestrian Club, he used high-powered binoculars to survey the crowd of friends and family from a platform high above the guests. He saw something he liked, recalls his former aide Adib Shabaan, who helped arrange the party. Uday tightened the focus on a pretty 14-year-old girl in a bright yellow dress sitting with her father, a former provincial governor, her mother and her younger brother...
...Paulin had recently aired virulent anti-Semitic views to the Arab press. If Paulin were a student, we hope that the University would defend his right to produce and disseminate his writing; but because Harvard would have been honoring both Paulin and his poetry by awarding him a coveted platform at the reading, the English department was appropriately judicious in reconsidering its decision to praise his work. There is a fine line between making sure the University does not squash the speech of figures such as Paulin—no matter how odious—and issuing its endorsement...
Since his undergraduate days, Mansfield has latched onto a conservative platform that has catapulted him into the spotlight as both a professor and an administrator at Harvard...
Fortunately, Hillel has recently been reinstated (although its funding is still up in the air). Next year’s CSU was elected on a platform of “students first, activism second”. This new executive, called “Evolution not Revolution,” won by a landslide with one of the highest turnouts in Concordia’s history. And that’s the thing: The vast majority of students do not agree with the CSU’s recent extremism. Even though many, including myself, are strongly opposed to certain Israeli policies...