Word: votes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 22 meeting in the Loeb Theatre, the Faculty approved the proposed plan by a vote of 251-158. The decision raised a firestorm: Rosovsky resigned his post as chairman of the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies in protest of the decision, which he called "an academic Munich." Rosovsky, along with many others in the Faculty, objected to the presence of students on the department's executive committee; students, the line of reasoning ran, are not sufficiently well-trained to judge the academic qualifications of professors being considered for tenure...
...there was another, more sensational, criticism raised against the Faculty vote: that it was born of the logic of fear. As Rosovsky's reference to Munich implied, many on the Faculty and around the country were appalled by what they saw as the capitulation of the nation's most prestigious university to the demands of students protesters--demands enforced by what some viewed as an atmosphere of psychological intimidation. The charge of capitulation inspired much heated debate: an associate professor at the University of Texas went so far as to ban from his classes all books written by Harvard professors...
...Boston University trustees voted yesterday to sell $6.6 million of B.U.'s portfolio investments that do not permit it to vote as a shareholder and influence corporate policy in South Africa...
...caucuses first compromised on the resolution that set up the Committee of 15, the disciplinary body established after the strike. The liberals won their goal of placing voting student members on the committee, in return for approving the conservatives plan for electing committee members by majority vote instead of proportional representation. The caucuses also agreed on the final shape of the Afro-American Studies Department and the structure of the Faculty Council. These divisive issues, which months of Faculty meetings had been unable to resolve earlier in the year, were decided with surprisingly large margins because of compromises and preliminary...
...boycotting or protesting would be based on the merits of the issues at hand rather than the rhetoric of a few individuals. Should Americans have ignored slavery (or continued to "debate" it) simply because a few abolitionists may have "exaggerated" the nature of that institution? Should we refuse to vote because candidates for office invariably exaggerate what we can reasonably expect them to accomplish. We are asked whether the Coalition has not in fact "exaggerated" claims about racial, class, and sexual oppression in the United States. We are invited to "discuss" rather than "boycott...