Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court meet to discuss and vote on cases on Friday mornings, they begin with 'he simple ritual of shaking hands. Then they sit down to decide on some of the nation's most sensitive, sometimes most divisive issues. No reporter, no lobbyist, no aide, not even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. The Justices are left alone to argue the law, their principles, their consciences. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like ''liberty'' and ''equality'' must...
...Faculty found the technical issues--such as financial aid and housing expansion--too confusing to discuss. Wilson recalls faculty members looking befuddled and finally declaring, "Well, that's an interesting idea," but Wilson says most didn't really understand what was involved, and asked to move on to something else...
...discuss matters of mutual concern to Harvard and Radcliffe and help resolve any problems that may exist in achieving the purposes of this agreement...
...group that hasn't met for a couple of years, all of its members are on pretty good terms. And they all agree that the reason they haven't sat down together is because there's been nothing to discuss. "The reason it hasn't met is that it hasn't had any business," says Dean Rosovsky. "There haven't been any problems that couldn't be resolved in the normal administrative way," says...
However, not all administrators agree. Some feel that the committee should sit regularly just to discuss the general state of affairs between the two institutions. More specifically, many administrators, including members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, urged the committee to sit down last year when the students grew angry about the method of term bill funding for the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). Rosovsky, who says the committee's mandate is to adjudicate differences between Harvard and Radcliffe, says that "with the exception of the RUS fee, there haven't been any differences." Horner recalls when CHUL...