Word: trumpbour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national and international level. It addresses the Harvard Corporation and community relations--such as Harvard's role as the largest landowner in Cambridge and its problems with labor unions. It also examines Harvard's role in the nation's foreign policy--specifically the arms control movement, which Trumpbour criticizes...
...Trumpbour says that the book will also expose sexism in the sciences, an ideological agenda that needs to be addressed because for many years Harvard has tried to give scientific credibility to ideas of superiority and inferiority between the races and sexes...
...book also attacks Harvard's tenure process, which Trumpbour says is "remarkably closed off to other groups" in the decision making process...
...Trumpbour says that the university would prefer for everybody to be passive and complacent, and he says that the thought that universities in general do breed the "assembly line" mentality that urges students to "punch into class and not challenge things." The goal of the essays is to provide students and other interested people a critical analysis into the University, and to spark activism and raise questions about policy...
...While Trumpbour says that he thinks the book will receive much enthusiasm and support from students and the community, he predicts that the University will try to denounce...