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...School faculty members and most Law students would have been mildly astounded if the dean had been anyone other than Albert Sacks. Nonetheless, Bok was careful to solicit-through President Pusey-the assistance of the School's student-faculty Governance Committee, and he specifically asked its help in establishing the most desirable qualities for the new dean...
...those below the status of Superior are expected to go out on streets to tell passersby about the Process, sell books, and solicit contributions; this work is called "donating." Aside from the personal incomes of individual Processeans, the Process and its activities are supported by the profits from the sale of food in the coffee house, sale of books, the $1.50 admission fee to a Friday night "telepathy developing circle," and by contributions...
LESSON THREE. Fight dirty. In screaming, full-page newspaper ads and proxy mailings, Milstein's faction has accused the management of setting up a stock-option plan that became a "grab bag" for senior officers, and of using $600,000 of company funds to solicit proxies to re-elect itself. The company has retaliated with allegations that one of the challengers is a director of a firm in competition with GAP, that another bought his first 100 shares of stock only a few weeks ago, and that Milstein "has not been employed in a full-time job since December...
...judges' objections went beyond the newspaper's editorial content-typically, unretouched photos of men and women, singly and in enthusiastic groups, performing all manner of sexual acrobatics. The decision specifically found illegal the many ads offering dildos and other sex paraphernalia, and classified ads soliciting participants in sex acts that clearly violate New York's penal law. So Screw did away with dildo display ads and printed a notice to all of the would-be users of its classified columns that henceforth it "can no longer accept personal ads which solicit persons to break...
...remain passive in the face of substantial evidence that the company is acting in an antisocial way." Indeed, the report continues, the University "may properly, and sometimes should, attempt to influence management in directions that are considered to be socially responsible." But the University should not itself litigate or solicit proxies; it should not "join forces with other large, tax-exempt organizations in policing the conduct of business organizations." No leadership role for Harvard; no obligation to consider questions of social responsibility. That is the Austin Committee's message...