Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters are now on the other side, the courageous free spirit more likely to be conservative than liberal. It is they who now lay claim to the protections of free speech, who can claim that morality is on their side. Even The Dartmouth Review claims the privileges of the oppressed...
...different than those of Wall Street traders," says Rob Weissman '88-'89, head of Harvard Watch, a group organized by consumer advocate Ralph Nader to monitor the University's investment activities. "Given the experience with the RJR takeover, this might be the ideal time for the University to review its policies...
...nearly certain to be adopted without a real debate. Unwilling to risk the wrath of their constituents by arguing publicly for salary hikes, lawmakers in 1967 devised a means of getting more money while ducking the blame. They established a Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries to review federal pay scales every four years...
Most schools are taking a tough stand against bigotry. Last October, after the independent conservative paper Dartmouth Review compared college president James Freedman, who is Jewish, to Hitler, the trustees denounced the editors for "ignorance and moral blindness." Months earlier, the university had taken sterner action, suspending three Review staffers for harassing a black professor of music. However, reinstatement of the students was ordered this month by a superior-court judge, and they are now suing the university for breach of contract, arguing that it did not live up to its bylaws, which guarantee free expression...
Defenders of abortion rights have good reason to be concerned. Says Duke University Law Professor Walter Dellinger: "This is not a case that needs to be heard unless the court wants to review Roe v. Wade." Since the court's last major abortion ruling in 1986, Justice Lewis Powell, who was part of the pro-choice majority, has been replaced by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Choice advocates feel Kennedy would not have been appointed unless President Reagan believed he was willing to strike down Roe. The increasingly vocal right-to- life supporters, smelling possible victory for their cause, were delighted...