Word: verba
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...report, prepared by a Faculty committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, said that rather than refusing scholarship money. Harvard should simply stop paying MIT the roughly $132,000 (as of 1992) annual fee for allowing Harvard students to enroll in the MIT ROTC program. As a further compromise, the Verba report also proposed another two-year delay before acting. The Verba report was endorsed by Rudenstine himself and approved by the Faculty last spring...
This newest delay reveals a glaring absurdity: The Verba report came out two years ago, yet administrators are still working out the details...
...truth is that many members of the faculty and the administration endorsed the Verba report, hoping that the election of Bill Clinton would make its conclusions moot. When it did not, the University once again had to look for cover...
...Verba report payed lip service to theproblems of discriminating against gays in themilitary. And in approving the report facultymembers billed their vote to approve the report'srecommendations as a firm stand againstdiscrimination...
...delay in action on the Verba report couldprovoke angry student reaction...