Word: thought
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...assistant professor of Biology and chairman of the Faculty Standing Committee on Women, looks at it from the perspective of a faculty member. She told a Cambridge Forum audience that those with an interest in the field are junior faculty members. She contends that they are afraid of being thought frivolous, a characterization that would reduce their chances for tenure. "We have a lot of pressures on us to concentrate on disciplines considered as serious," she notes...
...Committee, whose activities have gathered momentum in recent months, grew out of a subcommittee of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). The subcommittee thought it would be more effective if it separated from RUS and formed an autonomous organization. Since February, the new, chairmanless committee has attempted to broaden its base of student support and educate the general public about women's studies...
Orgel admits that many students have not thought about the issue or even the possibility of taking such courses, saying, "Before you can ask whether there's support you have to raise the issue." Local complacency also has to be dealt with. "Some people who come to Harvard are pretty pleased with the place and don't like being told what's wrong with it." She says that when students listen seriously to discussions about women's studies, they respond favorably...
...first controversial item involved a proposal to change the local real estate tax system by dropping the 4% discount offered to those who pay early. Tax delinquencies had reached nearly $37,000 last year-about 12% of this year's proposed $298,000 budget-and some thought the town could ill afford the discounts. Said Selectman Roderick Ross: "For years we've been giving away $6,000 and that's putting us in a hole...
Bramlet had no objections, but he kept insisting on a bigger cut for himself. Says an investigator: "He was demanding more out of the thing than the Mob thought he should get." Following one stormy negotiating session last summer, Bramlet was severely beaten. "I fell off a barstool," he told friends. Then, two weeks before his disappearance, the pension fund trustees turned down what is known in the union as Bramlet's "memorial hospital." Said an insider: "That thing was just too shaky. The trustees couldn't hold still for it." Bramlet was left in the awkward position...