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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heirarchy of authority that flows from the General Court to the Board of Regents to a local board of Trustees and constituencies as the faculty, students, and deans revelling in what they suppose to be their dimming power. She likens college authority to a pie, suggesting that her own slice as president is excruciatingly miniscule...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Checks and Balances | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

...though, these cautions seem not to apply to the vast majority of those who have participated. About 90 percent of the participants have said they were satisfied, and most participants are well-informed about Israeli life even before arriving. The slice of seems to be both realistic and reassuring to them. The personal and emotional benefits for the volunteers seem to far outstrip the costs. If you're an American who wants to help Israel, and you don't mind getting a little dirty, this just might be the best way yet to "pitch...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Pitching In | 5/9/1984 | See Source »

...Administration pushes ahead on an ABM system, not only will it waste a huge slice of the nation's wealth, but it will also break one of the most successful arms control agreements in history: the ABM section of the 1972 SALT I treaty. Recent evidence indicating that the Soviets have violated certain provisions of the treaty still gives no justification for a complete US abrogation. Arms control agreements are few and far between in our conflict-ridden world. They provide a major source of stability at a time when U.S. U.S.S.R. relations...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Space Cadet | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

...regarded by men not as autonomous individuals but as sexual objects, they are also viewed as either willing or deserving recipients of insults, manipulation, and forced sexual relations This is at the heart of both the professor accosting his students and the final club circular cajoling its members to "slice into one of these meaty but grateful heffers (sic)." Just as the survey showed that sexual harassment is epidemic at Harvard, the Pi Eta case must not be viewed as an isolated, unfortunate outbreak of "vulgarity." Pi Eta violated some code of discretion, failing to keep its behavior behind closed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Pi Eta | 4/13/1984 | See Source »

...good place for women and have always felt comfortable here. So it was sharply disillusioning to discover that any Harvard club would woo its members to a party with the promise of a "bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter," ensuring that all will have the chance to "slice into one of these meaty but grateful heifers...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Behind Closed Doors | 4/4/1984 | See Source »

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