Word: reaction
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...Committee is great about releasing information on the voting record of shareholders, but doesn’t make information about where the endowment is invested publicly available,” says Orlowski (Harvard discloses the stocks in which it invests to the Securities and Exchange Commission.) This cautiously optimistic reaction to Harvard’s success is widespread. Spring Greeney ’09, chair of the Environmental Action Committee, is impressed that Harvard did so well in the rankings. But Greeney calls attention to the challenges the University must face in the near future. “The Allston...
...write a letter to Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow saying that he should not invite “people who have contributed in one way or another to making racist and sexist attitudes more mainstream” to speak on campus. Much of the harsh reaction may be due to the fact that a recent Tufts speaker, affirmative action critic Shelby Steele, offended many with language some deemed to be racially insensitive. Nevertheless, the dismissive attitude that these students and academics have taken towards free speech is appalling; it utterly undermines the marketplace of ideas that forms the bedrock...
...Mani, also a student at the Kennedy School, said he did not have a strong reaction to the decision...
...were compelled to serve in military brothels as "comfort women," a euphemism for virtual sex slaves, many of whom were horribly abused. In 1993, after years of evading responsibility, the Japanese government issued a statement officially acknowledging the army's role - direct or indirect - in the forced prostitution. The reaction across Asia to Abe's remarks was instant and angry, with South Korea's foreign minister calling on Japan to "face the truth," while septuagenarian former sex slaves in the Philippines furiously denounced Abe as a liar...
...suburban kitchen that many feminists characterized as the 1970s battleground of women’s rights? Women at Harvard are reluctant to join their sexualities and identities to political parties or groups of people; this is a legitimate sentiment, but too often the result is a muted or nonexistent reaction to sexism when it manifests itself on campus, because women feel no common bond of gender. As Cott puts it, “There is a paradox between recognizing the problem of women as a constructed group in society, and then the individualistic aims that the group wishes to accomplish...