Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year when the Harvard Affirmative Action Plan showed a significant gap between tenure and tenure-track women faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the available pool, and the Verba Report called for a stepped-up effort to recruit women scholars, Radcliffe appointed a president that believes that there is a small pool of qualified women scholars, and that this small pool is "a significant factor" in Harvard's low rate of tenure for women faculty...
...Commencement week meeting, the Board, which serves as one of the University's two governing bodies, voted to implement several changes recommended by the controversial Young Report. Some of the report's most appalling recommendations rightly were rejected by the Board, but the changes that were adopted will allow the administration to control Overseer elections more easily and stifle dissenting voices...
Although the Young Report was justified by University officials as an attempt to improve the caliber of its Overseers candidates, the changes will make the process ridiculously undemocratic. One change is that the "official" candidates--those nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association--will be listed separately (meaning first) on the ballot from candidates who are nominated by petition--as Tutu was. Another change allows the Alumni Association to mail an endorsement of its candidates to alumni along with the ballot...
...only thing worse than a single-issue overseer would be a non-issue overseer, which is precisely what the Young Report's changes will produce. Instead of a valuable forum for discussing the performance of the University and its proper role in society, the Board will become nothing more than a place to honor alumni who are famous enough to win a popularity contest...
...about the same time, the government issued harsh martial-law decrees ordering leaders of the prodemocracy movement, "important figures who incited and organized this counterrevolutionary insurrection in the capital," to turn themselves in for "lenient treatment." The decrees set up a spy-and-report network, complete with 18 telephone hot lines, so that citizens could help round up dissidents. Fearful of arrest, student leaders who had survived the carnage went underground or fled the city. The astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, a leading dissident who was prevented by the government from dining with George Bush during the President's visit last February...