Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand Johnson's appeal to the language of "egalitarianism" and the importance of equality of opportunity. But we must remember that there are plenty of single-sex organizations at Harvard which do not exist because of some latent sense of gender superiority. I refer to organizations such as the Din and Tonics or the Radcliffe Pitches which have all male or female membership. In both cases there are artistic values associated with all-male or all-female voices and skits and the reason why we hear no outcry is because these opportunities are balanced for men and women...
...grievance, Berkowitz states that "in two fundamental ways, Harvard failed to follow its own procedures" in the process of reviewing him for tenure, and his appeal to the Docket Committee culminates in a demand for a new hearing...
...know of a situation where there's been this kind of appeal," said former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, who is also a member of the Corporation, the University's chief governing board...
Details of Berkowitz's appeal have been broadcast to the world over the Internet since Nesson included the case in his "Winter Evidence" course last year at HLS and his students created a Berkowitz Web site, which includes an exchange of letters between the professor and Harvard administrators...
...lawyer conceded that "outside legal action is a possibility" once Berkowitz has exhausted Harvard's internal avenues for appeal...