Word: woods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal by Peter H. Wood '64 about divestment was discussed for two hours at the Board's December meeting in preparation for a vote, members said at the time. But Overseer Franklin D. Raines '71 said that divestment was not on the agenda for the upcoming meeting. The agenda is set by the Board's Executive Committee. "I would be very surprised if there was a vote at this meeting," he said...
...Wood said he thought there would be furtherdiscussion of the divestment issue at the meeting,but that he did not think it would focus on hisproposal. "I'm not aware that any suggestions I'vemade are going to be discussed further by theBoard," he said. Wood wrote his proposaldistributed at the December meeting in response toa request by Bok and Butler
...plunge a collapsing world and its demented inhabitants into the audience's laps. The place depicted must have been a palace once. Now the arches have sagged, and the staircases end in midair. The steeply raked floor intersects doorways at crazy angles, as though it were not wood but water, flooding a city where the people too seem to be drowning. This haunted spot is Epirus, home of Pyrrhus, heroic son of the even more valiant Achilles, and the time is soon after the Trojan...
Reading from the statements they prepared for the Voters Handbooks, last year's winning HRAAA-supported candidates, Peter Wood '64, PhD '72 and Consuela Washington JD '73, and the other four petition candidates HRAAA backed, listed the following issues (besides divestment): research funding priorities, undergraduate curriculum, strengthening the House system, improved conditions for graduate study, implementing affirmative action, admissions and employment practices, curriculum development, improved management skills by the University administration, development of peace studies and conflict resolution curricula, extent of CIA influence on faculty research, Harvard's relationship with Boston and Cambridge elementary and secondary schools, the status...
...mistake to assume that Iowans can simply be reduced to a Grant Wood painting. Gone is the era when John Gunther could confidently declare in Inside U.S.A., published in 1947, "Corn is everything in Iowa." The state is still the nation's leading producer of corn and hogs, but these days only 10% of the labor force continue to work the land. "Many people in Iowa have never been on a farm," says Political Scientist James Hutter of Iowa State University. "I imagine that fewer than half of my students have spent more than a day on a farm...