Word: regard
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...writing in regard to the recent debate over the elimination of the Science A and B core exemptions (Staff Editorial, Dec.15). Since we deal with this issue as Advanced Standing Peer Counselors, we bring a unique understanding of the benefits of these excemptions...
...known or should have been known to those selecting them; and some of the 'new' experts/panelists were of an age and academic station that should have disqualified them as competitors for the position Professor Berkowitz sought or at least presented the appearance of a conflict of interest in that regard...
Being safely situated out-side Harvard, I feel at liberty to comment on a couple of suggestions made by English department chair Leo Damrosch in regard to the University's recent failure to tenure Prof. Jeffrey Masten. According to the Crimson's Dec. 10 article on the case, Damrosch speculates that Harvard must stint on granting tenure to English literature Faculty because the department is small, presumably meaning that it can accommodate only a choice few in its senior ranks. I have heard this argument before, and I am as bemused by it now as I was when...
Even if one sees worth in some or all of the causes our national dialogue has embraced, it seems impossible to justify the behavior of the Race Advisory Board with regard to the most important race-related issue of our time: affirmative action. Early in the supposed discourse, John Hope Franklin, the chair of the board, refused to hear from opponents of affirmative action. Franklin stated that these pariahs "don't speak the same language" as more enlightened thinkers such as himself. Since these remarks there has been a hailstorm of criticism, and President Clinton has pressured the board...
...vast number of issues that have nothing to do with homosexuality and it's unclear why supporting gay rights must be tied to, say, supporting abortion rights or socialized health care. Granted, many thoughtful people, gay and straight alike, have pondered these issues and have come to regard themselves as committed liberals...