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...case of Tenita Deal, a flight attendant at American Airlines. A former dancer, she has a normal weight for her age and height according to accepted medical and nutritional standards. Yet in 1991, she was forced to file a suit against her employers because they gave her an ultimatum: lose weight or lose your...
Council members are currently focusing on the question of the University's connection with the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC), which does not admit gay and lesbian students. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will decide this spring whether to enforce an ultimatum it issued two years ago, threatening to sever ties with ROTC if the program did not make progress towards changing its policy...
This spring, Harvard faces a deadline for severing all remaining ties with ROTC. The University issued the ultimatum two years ago, protesting the military's policy of barring gays and lesbians from service...
...same time, other schools are also facing the same issue and giving the military an ultimatum: change the discriminatory policy or be cut off completely...
Citing such concerns, the Faculty Council issued an ultimatum to the Pentagon in 1989, warning that if this policy were not overturned by the spring of 1992, Harvard would no longer accept scholarship money for incoming students from the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). Those ROTC students already enrolled in the University would continue to receive financial assistance until their graduations...