Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team of researchers at Harvard's Sidney Farber Cancer Institute has found a definite relation between genetic changes in cells and cancer. Geoffrey M. Cooper, associate professor of pathology and director of the study, said yesterday...
...Committee Undergraduate Education (CUE) discussed the plan at a regular meeting yesterday and may include it in a broad set of recommendations to the Faculty expected in May, Sidney Verba '53, an associate dean and the group's chairman, said afterwards...
...idea of concentrated work in a such field is a good one , but we don't want an explossion of different credentials added to the diploma, said council members Sidney Verba `53 associate dean of the Faculty for under graduate education...
This unpleasant set of circumstances led to an even more abhorrent outcome. Associate Dean for Education Sidney Verba, in a letter for the Faculty Council, told us: "The Faculty Council will not accept special representation for designated groups." What this meant to us was that if someone could not be elected because of explicit or implicit discrimination, or if certain segments of the undergraduate population were unrepresented, or if the majority got whatever it wanted, even at the expense of the minority--too bad. Justice, to the Faculty it seems, is less important than "basic democratic principles," including the democratic...
Chomsky's characterization of the United States as a "propaganda" state like all the rest--distinguishable only by its more effective and seductive salesmanship--is particularly hard to swallow. For every Sidney Hook who dismissed the havoc of Vietnam as "an unfortunate accidental loss of life" and "the unintended consequence of military action," there was a Noam Chomsky, willing--and able--to stand up and decry the madness. Maybe the reaction came to little too late, but Americans eventually rebelled against their own government's policy and, through their action, ended a nightmare...