Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were fairly concerned with the South Africa situation," Anderson said, adding that students at the School of Education had also approached the administration asking the school to take a stand on the University's policy as outlined in the April 27 report...
...Boulez, to stand still is to fall back. "The people at IRCAM should be like children who always want to be fed. That is the relation I want between the musicians and the scientists." In addition to directing his staff of 53 and planning IRCAM'S future, he is working toward a May concert of his own. He regards his six years as music director of the New York Philharmonic as "a big parenthesis in my life," but adds, "I learned the practicalities of administration there. Without that experience I might not have been offered this job. I think...
Already, a split is emerging between the radicals and the purists over how to deal with the South Africa issue. The first clear instance of this split occurred at the second assembly meeting when representatives voted to recess instead of taking a stand on the Engelhard issue. During the debate the purists said taking such a stand before consulting with students would contradict what the assembly stood for, while the radicals stressed that a time factor was involved because of the demonstration at the Kennedy School. The vote to recess passed nonetheless, angering many of the radicals. However, the meeting...
Rosen is a good example of the members in this loose faction. An active member of the South Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), Rosen has insisted that the assembly should not take a stand on the issue of Harvard's ties to South Africa until the representatives are sure of undergraduate opinion. Rosen says the only way the assembly will gain legitimacy is through precise representation. He believes the assembly will soon be ignored if it loses touch with its constituents...
...clubs will always stand for elitism to the up-and-coming student whose ego and self-perception finds a niche in Harvard's plethora of prestige and vanity, and to the super-communist who sneers at the stodgy brick walls of the Fly Club with its fenced-in garden and throws eggs at anything resembling a starchy penguin on Halloween...