Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foremost among the issues facing the faculty was the thorny problem of government-supported research. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran was forced to resign as director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies after secret CIA funding for his research and a conference was made public. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence eventually published a report which shifted much of the blame onto some supposedly sloppy administration by Spence's predecessor, Henry Rosovsky. The report was widely perceived both inside and outside of the faculty as a whitewash, and a superficial one at that...
William L. Saltonstall is Class of 1949, not 1928. And William Saltonstall did not resign from the Massachusetts State Senate but chose not to run for re-election...
...like attitude toward controversy on campus. His style presents a striking contrast to his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, who in 1969 ordered police to forcibly evict student protesters who had seized University Hall. The bloody incident sparked a three-day University wide strike. Pusey announced his intention to resign shortly thereafter that turbulent spring, but the strife-torn University remained divided...
...duty to public service is not one that Saltonstalls take lightly, and Thomas is not the only one to resign over a difference between personal and government ethics. William L. Saltonstall '28 recently resigned as a Massachusetts state senator because of a law that would require state candidates to list their financial holdings...
...corporations, including Pacific Bell and Cigna insurance company, are now allowing AIDS sufferers to stay on the job as long as their failing health permits. Three years ago, when two BankAmerica employees in San Francisco flatly refused to work with an AIDS victim, the company let the objectors resign and kept the disease victim in | his post. Says Nancy L. Merritt, a BankAmerica vice president: "We recognize the therapeutic value of employees being allowed to work as long as they can." At the San Francisco headquarters of Levi Strauss, the blue jeans manufacturer, an AIDS victim who was allowed...