Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attended Brown University and received his Ph.D. from Harvard is also the publisher and founder of Creation and Criticism, the most prestigious intellectual journal in South Korea. The South Korean government has banned several issues of the quarterly, which is devoted to publishing works of leading Korean historians, philosophers, social scientists, and artists...
...give students a ruling say over whether or not to boycott a product, Harvard makes a judgment that Stevens is not a serious enough issue. I do not make that charge lightly, because it is manifestly clear that many everyday decisions of the University represent decisions on moral, social and political matters larger than the narrowly-defined educational process. You mention in your letter the effect on the community of decisions to construct new buildings, as well as treatment of minority students and applicants...
...cynical about the brand of economics it teaches--to the neglect of what more than half the world's economists pursue--that it will refute daily that theory's fundamental assumptions? I am afraid that one of the most important lessons of the Harvard experience will be how far social institutions are from real democracy, and how little say the average consumer has over what he receives for his money...
...Harvard Purchasing Department can make no claims to a clearer assessment of moral issues surrounding Stevens and Nestles purchases, nor can they decide whether students would prefer non-Stevens sheets at a few pennies more. By making quantity and quality alone the basis for purchases, and thus excluding the social and moral issues users care about, the University has gone far to repress "the reasoned expression of ideas and arguments." As you say, "universities that violate this social compact do so at their peril...
Finally, Harvard serves very noble educational goals in integrating students' social and moral concerns into its administration. For one, this encourages an awareness and discussion of social problems lying outside the campus. This goal cannot merely be pursued in the classroom, as the Institute of Politics and Phillips Brooks House attest. Second, your own writing laments the fact that labor interests play so little role on the campus: "Colleges and universities too have a role to play in the labor field that up to now has been largely neglected...meager contacts seem particularly striking when they are compared with...