Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict of interest. The council says it is postponing discussion on the proposal, which would have required Faculty members with potentially serious conflicts of interest to report them to the University, because it is vaguely written. Although the council certainly should not hasten to adopt a policy it will regret, the issues raised in recent months cry out for an update of Harvard's 15-year-old position...
...agree that questions about batting one's eyelashes are inappropriate at any level of the selection process. We regret that interviewing committees are sometimes unable to assess women's abilities to react to stress without raising sex-related issues. However, we also think that students should realize the obligation of committees to raise sensitive issues which may be encountered by the student, to gauge command over a plan of study, and to test commitment to a future career. Most fellowships are not strictly objective and represent an investment in an individual's potential as well as a reward for academic...
...historian is to accuse him of keeping his gaze focused entirely on the past, of having no concern for the present and future. The recently proposed revision of the sophomore tutorial program in History, if implemented, will be a giant step backwards into a past we have grown to regret--a past in which the history of an entire hemisphere was ignored in favor of our own, a past in which progressive universities were reviewed by Senate committees for daring to teach "dangerous" communist theory, and a past which still evokes shock among students schooled only by conventional high school...
...post-assassination sermon, an earnest lamentation about the "sickness of American society," has become a notably fatuous genre that blames everyone and then, after 15 minutes of earnestly empty regret, absolves everyone. It is true that there is a good deal of evil in the American air; television and the sheer repetitiousness of violence have made a lot of the country morally weary and dull and difficult to shock...
...Pennsylvanian cancelled Manno's weekly column because of the incident. Andrew J. Kirtzman, executive editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian, said yesterday. "We regret printing the column. The Daily Pennsylvanian has standards which this column did not meet," he added...