Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot prevent a person who is determined to be here for an unauthorized purpose from being here," said Science Center Director Nona Strauss last week, when the University postponed its plans to tighten security at the Science Center in the wake of a rape in the building last December...
That attitude about campus security is the only thing that will prevent Harvard from providing a safer work environment for faculty, staff and students. The Science Center is a Harvard facility, and the University has a responsibility to ensure that working there is safe, particularly since it is the only study area with 24-hour access...
These considerations are not pressing enough to prevent implementation of a tighter security plan. The plan could be modified so that the east entrance to the building also remained open, with a second security guard posted at that door. If faculty, staff or students wish to have guests in the Science Center, they can accompany them into the building...
...committee has not yet completed a report, but its members say they will discuss everything from the practical issue of redesigning the pension plan to the vaguer concern that older professors holding tenure positions indefinitely may prevent the promotion of younger faculty members...
This week, to prevent such a tragedy, conservationists will unveil the most elaborate and costly plan in history to rescue a single species. Sponsored by the African Elephant Conservation Coordinating Group, a coalition of several international organizations, the plan calls for bolstering efforts to protect elephants against poachers, a study of ways to crack down on illegal trading of tusks, and a publicity campaign to alert people and governments to the relationship between the trade in ivory and the plight of the elephant. The AECCG hopes to raise at least $15 million in four years to finance its work...