Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bossert said the access to more terminals will allow students to make use of computer terminals at reasonable hours, "like at eight o'clock in the morning." Although some student always leave their term projects to the last minute, thus overcrowding terminals, "the crisis in reading period will be manageable," he added...
...Council falsely claims that University support of a consumer boycott would endanger the right of the minority to use the product. In the first place, any student could still use the product privately. And second, refusal to recognize a majority referendum supporting a boycott effectively denies the majority's right not to use the produce: when a student goes to UHS, he has no choice but to sleep on J.P. Stevens sheets, even after the student body has voted to boycott that company...
...that the University should not consider the ethical implications of each purchase because the process would impose a "heavy administrative burden." This is an evasion of the issue--the student body's right to make responsible choices about what it consumes. It is, after all, students, not administrators, who use the health services and dining halls...
...majority of students show by direct boycott or ballot that they find use of a product morally repugnant, then a boycott should take place. By denying students this right, the University does worse than take a morally neutral position; it prevents students from acting on their moral beliefs. Bok and the Corporation should flatly reject the Council's ethically empty policy...
...most turbulent reaction came from the economists. Called upon to use their science to explain one of its most unsettling real-world applications, they broke ranks in characteristic confusion, and gave the nation nothing more than a picture of academe at its worst--a group of grown men playing with charts, tables and numbers, more interested in defending their own theories and schools of thought than in helping the nation understand its economic agony...