Word: use
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...made a false distinction between free academic expression and free expression about how the University is run. It seems that when the community expresses itself freely about university governance, it is indulging in foolish distractions. Speaking of other universities, and obliquely of Harvard, Bok says that efforts to "use the institution as an instrument to influence political disputes...have weakened universities abroad by distracting their members from teaching and learning...
...answer is particularly clear in the case of boycotts. If a majority of students agree to bear the higher cost of a given product, which only they use, then the University should honor their freely-made decision not to contribute their money to an objectionable corporation, whether it sells a product that kills babies or engages in a vicious union-busting...
President Bok is arguing that we should not use our rights in order to protect our rights. The University as an investor has the right to decide which corporations it wants to invest in on any grounds it deems appropriate. And yet, Bok argues that Harvard's decision to divest of its South African holdings would tend "to undermine the willingness of outside groups to respect the academic freedom of the University." Every consumer has the right to decide which products to buy and which not to buy and yet Bok believes that by exercising this right, Harvard will induce...
Eloquent statements of purpose have not in the past moved departments to comply with tutorial legislation, and Bowersock's plan carries no more weighty method of enforcement. Bowersock defends his policy, explaining that, "enforcing was a word I never intended to use in connection with these reforms." Persuading, he adds, is a more appropriate approach. "We can't knock heads together in this University; that's not the way we work...
Joseph A. Califano Jr., HEW Secretary, at Notre Dame: "Of all the judgments of history and God we should fear, it is their judgment on our continued failure to use the means at hand to end the hunger of the world that we should fear most...