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Finnegan responded by saying that the fight against racism is "a question of public officials having the courage and the fire to make the decisions that might be unpopular, but are fair...
...University hired a police management specialist to investigate the problem. John T. Howland, executive director of the Institute of Public Service Management, concluded in his report of the University police that the union correctly cited some of the reasons for low morale and recommended that the police take steps to correct the situation, including establishing a better promotion system, increasing internal communication, and providing greater access to job advancement and training programs...
...size and power of Harvard's investment portfolio, like most things at Harvard, is shrouded in mystery. Portfolio managers daily decide the direction of the University's investments, secluded from student demonstrators and outside interference. Like the gnomes of Zurich, they keep their decisions out of the public eye and help to perpetuate the myth behind Harvard's portfolio. They are cautious, conservative investors, seemingly unshaken by the moral and ethical questions students raise...
Wilson and Herrnstein's course emerges from a Gen Ed course the two professors began teaching three years ago on crime and public policy. Over the years they let the public policy issue slide as they became increasingly absorbed with what Wilson calls "the special case of crime...
...have to get credit for it," Mayman says. "There's just no overwhelming need or desire for the arts as credit," say Coolidge. Perhaps with the coming of Brustein, the desire for change--a shift towards credibility for the arts as Bakanowsky calls it--will become a more public issue. Until then, for many students and professors, pursuing the arts at Harvard will remain frustrating. "Sometimes I feel that if you're in the arts you shouldn't be at Harvard," says Malardi but she, and many others, stay with hopes for change. Meanwhile, the arts survive here, as well...