Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, Harvard has delayed and wavered, making a colossal mess of what was a forthright decision. First, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, from whom we expected much more, set up a student-faculty committee to study the issue just a few months before the ultimatum was to take effect. To make matters worse, that committee requested a five-month extention on its own deadline, until just last week...
...doing so, the committee contradicted theFaculty Council's original ultimatum in 1990: thatHarvard would stop accepting ROTC scholarshipfunds if the military continued to discriminate...
Last January, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R.Knowles suspended the ultimatum and created thespecial student-faculty committee to reexamine theissue...
That recommendation--and the Faculty's decision--is already months late. In 1990, the Faculty Council set an ultimatum: if the ban was not removed by May 1992, Harvard would sever all ties. Period...
...when Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles assumed office last year, he declared the ultimatum invalid and appointed a committee to study the issue...