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Whatever you decide to do regarding divestment, Bok certainly wants to keep the University divestment policy--the private purview of the big seven--out of the spotlight...
...loving Democrats compare their man to another inexperienced presidential candidate by the name of Eisenhower. But War Hero Ike entered politics before presidential campaigns became two-year marathons and television extravaganzas. There is no telling how Iacocca, if he did accede to a candidacy, would fare under the spotlight of a national campaign. Questions would be raised about his loyalty to the Democrats: a former Republican, he now votes independently...
Bias' death turned the spotlight on the status of athletes at the University of Maryland. Bias had compiled a dismal academic record at the school, particularly in the past year, and was still 21 credits short of graduating, instead of nine, as he recently claimed. The university and Basketball Coach "Lefty" Driesell quickly found themselves the targets of charges that athletes, particularly black athletes, are routinely exploited at big-time sports schools. Wendy Whittemore, academic counselor to the basketball team, took the occasion to resign, saying that she thought education was not a top priority for Coach Driesell. Marshall claimed...
...week last January, a pack of reporters from every major media outlet descended upon Cambridge and put the University's seemingly callous action in America's spotlight. Dozens of phone calls from every state in the Union flooded the Harvard News Office in what turned out to be a public relations fiasco of national proportions...
...image he is trying to forge. Combining social issues with union issues, Bozzotto attempted, with some success, to form an alliance with students, an alliance he hopes will exert more force on a stubborn Harvard management than unionism alone. His foray into the divestment world and into the media spotlight were calculated manuevers to gain the support of student and faculty activists, observers speculate. Thus, Bozzotto has pushed the union movement, with mixed success from an isolated facet of the Harvard experience into mainstream anti-Harvard administration...