Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such expansion has raised questions about the underlying aims of the University, its role in the community and the purpose of growth itself. Is Harvard primarily an academic institution or a real estate company? Many asked, "Why build a hotel?" Members of the faculty noted that the site could be better used as a library or a building to ease the faculty office crunch. Community activists screamed about insensitivity, charging that the University was destroying area neighborhoods...
During an interview held at the Hong Kong chinese restaurant a week before Lee's graduation day, he reflects on his role as the council's chief officer...
...three Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) members on the Board push Harvard to divest its $168.3 million in South Africa-related stock and push the Board to take a more active--and often adversarial--role, the University's response has become more closed and paranoic...
That the Young Report is in jeopardy is an indication of the changing role of the Overseers, which traditionally has acted as a rubber stamp for the Corporation, which is responsible for all University policy decisions. HRAAA members and other, more progressive University nominees push for the Board to take a more active role in Harvard's governance, and, as a result, the University strives to marginalize them in the Board itself...
This reprehensible behavior must stop. The administration must listen to dissenting voices if the Board is ever to assume its proper role as an active voice for the alumni of Harvard, a role that would contribute to a more open and more wisely run University...