Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms of student turnout, the boycott worked. Estis says he feels the boycott was worthwhile "if for no other reason than that it got people informed about the Afro-Am issue." He says it is hard to say which of the issues people turned out to support, but hopes "we got everyone thinking about both...
Whatever the reason, Harvard's decision to contest the overlay "broke the camel's back," Bernie Flynn, administrative assistant to Danehy, said later. Within a week, the letter to the Board of Overseers decrying the "consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard was signed and mailed out. Two weeks later, the City Council decided after heated debate to contest the overlay ruling. "As of now, the overlay is in effect with six votes backing it," City Manager Sullivan said. A court challenge to the seventh vote provision began two weeks...
...Harvard Corporation--which he heads--to invest the University's endowment and to set purchasing and fundraising policies. Bok and the Corporation have been careful not to share their power on these issues despite vigorous and widespread faculty and student sentiment. He gave a clue to the reason for this autocratic stance in his second letter when he wrote that Harvard "will command much less respect if it takes political stands on matters unrelated to education, especially among businessmen who regard these stands as the product of student protest and campus unrest...
Radcliffe's desire to regain financial control was a major reason it insisted on the 1977 agreement. Lyman explains, "When you fold your corporation into another corporation, it's over--you eliminate any power you have. And Harvard had other uses for our money." Harvard may not, for example, feel the same urgency about maintaining Radcliffe's Bunting Institute or its Data Resource center, both of which provide opportunities for women's studies research...
...Beyond Reason, Trudeau...