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Because the History Department and the Government Department did not offer what these interdisciplinary students wanted, Russian and Soviet Studies students petitioned their own umbrella-department to fill in the gaps...
...Long-term health insurance] is very badly needed as the population ages. We can't make Congress adopt a plan, so we will do it through institutions," said Ernst Benjamin, co-chairman of the pension issues committee of the umbrella organization for higher education in Washington. Benjamin, who also heads the American Association of University Professors, said such policies have not existed at universities until now, but "Harvard will provide academic leadership" in the area...
Some students say that need is highlighted by the virtual breakup last year of the Third World Student Alliance (TWSA), a loosely formed umbrella group of Harvard's largest minority groups. The breakup was precipitated by internal disagreement about a TWSA report published last semester...
Reaction to the new pullouts from U.S. opponents of apartheid was mixed. Timothy Smith, head of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, an umbrella organization representing more than 200 Roman Catholic and Protestant groups, called the moves a "significant victory for antiapartheid forces" because they send a message to other U.S. corporations that "it is bad business to do business with South Africa." Leon Sullivan termed the new withdrawals a "big first step toward achieving the goal of ending apartheid"; he now believes that a "total embargo" will be necessary if racial segregation is not dismantled by next June. Other...
These are the same Dirty Harry-type clods who get all worked up when some bad guy "gets off" because his constitutional rights were violated. What they forget--or don't care to understand--is that the Bill of Rights exists to shield the innocent from such harassment. The umbrella of its liberties extends to the guilty to protect better those of the innocent--those who have nothing to hide...