Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over at the first sign of trouble, order a shut down if that seems necessary, direct all emergency procedures for closing the plant-and damn what it may cost. At present, this responsibility is borne largely by utility-company employees, who, with the best will in the world, cannot avoid thinking about the costs to the company. In addition, computers at all U.S. nuclear plants should be wired in to a central NRC monitoring station, so that the first blip registering potential trouble would ring an alarm at headquarters...
...action. Bok might counter that since there is disagreement within the academic community, choosing one course of action over another might threaten academic freedom. In the first place, his underlying assumption--that even if the seven men of the Corporation make that decision for the community, we will somehow avoid the difficulty--is contradictory on its face. And second, the issues of investor responsibility and academic freedom are separate: making responsible choices as an investor would not jeopordize academic liberty...
...perspective on their own educations. The Faculty created the Core Curriculum to replace the flawed and misdirected General Education program. As students under Gen Ed's sway, present undergraduates have a unique outlook on the program. They are well qualified to suggest ways in which the Faculty might best avoid repeating these mistakes...
FINALLY, Rosovksy argues that he must keep the committee meetings confidential to avoid embarrassing professors whose proposed courses are rejected by the committee. It would seem that professors' vanities are taking precedence over educational quality...
Another suggestion was to assign Houses before freshman year, as Yale does, to insure maximum randomization and to avoid having students select Houses on the basis of stereotypes...