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...recognition by the Lab's management that it does contribute to the instability inherent in the arms race. Nuclear weapons, and the systems that guide them, are not abstract concepts. Their impact is connected to all of us--indeed it threatens our very existence. It is very easy to withdraw into our own personal concerns, whether they be the solution to a particular problem in inertial guidance, or a question of how to appeal to a graduate school interviewer, but we must remember to ask ourselves what it is all for. This is certainly something the people at Draper...

Author: By John Chute, John Lindsay, and Jay Mccleod, S | Title: Demonstration at Draper Lab | 4/30/1981 | See Source »

...protector of the Christians in their civil war against the leftist Muslims and Palestinians. The troops have remained there under a peace-keeping mandate from the Arab League. By 1978, however, the Christians had turned against the Syrians and after bitter fighting managed to force them to withdraw from Christian areas of Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Guns of April | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

When the board votes to require a student to withdraw, a student must usually wait one full year before reapplying...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Grad School Ad Board Voter To Modify Sanctions on Verr | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...Administrative Board of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) voted yesterday to modify its sanctions against Steven R. Verr '79, who was required to withdraw from the GSAS in February for allegedly violating the terms of his disciplinary probation...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Grad School Ad Board Voter To Modify Sanctions on Verr | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

After frequent student protests against the Vietnam War and ROTC presence at Harvard in the spring of 1969, the Faculty voted at the beginning of the fall term to deny credit for ROTC instruction and to withdraw the use of Harvard buildings for ROTC. A few weeks later, the Defense Department decided to end its affiliation with Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ancient Marriage Of Harvard and ROTC | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

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