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There was no general meeting to deliberate and vote on whether AAA should be doing this. Nor did the AAA steering committee solicit the views of the general membership two years ago, when AAA publicly condemned Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53, issued demands for an ethnic studies curriculum, and called for an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism" at Harvard...
...applies annually to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for funding of its 10 staff positions. But under the College report's proposals, President Neil L. Rudenstine would solicit funds from the University's ongoing capital campaign to endow funding for staff positions...
Three of the professors said they thought the faculty advisory committee to the University-wide task force did not adequately solicit faculty opinion...
...second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member said it was "under active consideration," and according to one source, the company may solicit a list of outside candidates as early as this week. At the same time, friends of Jeffrey Katzenberg, head of the highly successful Walt Disney Studios and in many ways the logical choice for the job, were busy making Katzenberg's case to anyone who would listen...
Today at least 40,000 street tramps sleep in Moscow's metro tunnels and solicit change outside its new temples of affluence. That is still less than half the estimated homeless population of a city of comparable size, such as New York City. But places like Kursky station have become overrun by these panhandlers. Some are tubercular. Others are covered with skin ulcers and body sores. The existence of most is sufficient to provoke the spleen of passersby. "Disorder, dirt and a total lack of care for others," says Vera Alexeyev, a housewife who has lived in the city...