Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty members spoke out against the apparent contradiction of the Corporation's policy. An open letter to the Corporation signed by 140 faculty members, after three successive debates on the University's South Africa policy, called on the University to adopt a graduated, five-step policy for corporate withdrawal...
Last spring the full faculty discussed Harvard's relation to its investments and then followed up the debate with a letter, signed by 140 professors, calling on Harvard to adopt a graduated, five-step policy promoting corporate withdrawal from South Africa. In addition, a small group of the letter's signers said they would meet with Congressional leaders and corporate directors to encourage the phasing-out of U.S. corporate activities in South Africa. The group of faculty, however, will not discuss its plans until classes begin, one its members said last week...
...Social Analysis, the Core guidelines also ask professors to "test and illuminate" these formal theories with empirical data. Wilson again is in step with the Core here. For example, with genetics he will teach his students how to decode the genetic contribution and then observe complexities that arise in attempting to separate genetics and environment...
...should go even further and require ETS to make available any ETS data that would allow outside individuals to evaluate the tests. But as it stands, the law is a big step forward, which ETS and the various College Boards should not hinder with limited testing, higher prices or boycotts...
Keyte knows he's No. 2 now; and he's not playing cutthroat to get ahead. He's woriking within the system, studying to do the best job he can and preparing for the situation when he may have to step in for St. John...