Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sidney Verba '53, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education and chairman of CUE, told the group, "I can't think of a legitimate topic that would be banned." A student simply would not be able to engage in an activity without seriously analyzing it intellectually and producing evidence that he has done such analysis, Verba said...
Paul Bentel, an editor of the Architecture Review and a fourth-year GSD student, said the conference's topic of monumentality was chosen to provoke discussion about the social responsibility of architects and the relation of buildings to the city...
WEAL is scheduled to testify for 10 minutes at the hearings on "how best to improve the goals" of affirmative action, a committee staff person said yesterday. The hearings are the fourth and final set the committee has scheduled on the topic. The previous ones examined the effectiveness of current affirmative action regulations...
...Ford grant "will permit us to become a national center for the study of culture and gender," Scott said, adding that no other school is concentrating its efforts on this topic...
Throughout last week's session the group members returned again and again to one topic that fascinates them all: the public uneasiness with computers and their impenetrable complexity. Some members noted that so-called fail-safe computers that are never supposed to break down have recently been much in the news. Others recalled the computer-caused hiccups in the second launch of the space shuttle two weeks...