Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong sense of alienation" exists in the department, that a "hostile and distrusting" atmosphere pervades faculty-students relationships and that discrimination against radical economists, women and minorities is a long tradition. The departure highlights even further the salient question posed by the committee whether the department can "effectively function in the future...
...primary function of a university is to discover and disseminate knowledge by means of research and teaching. To fulfill this function a free interchange of ideas is necessary not only within its walls but with the world beyond as well. It follows that the university must do everything possible to ensure within it the fullest degree of intellectual freedom. The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another...
Because few other institutions in our society have the same central function, few assign such high priority to freedom of expression. Few are expected to. Because no other kind of institution combines the discovery and dissemination of basic knowledge with teaching, none confronts quite the same problems as a university...
...presence of a widely shared belief in the primacy of free expression. Nonetheless, we believe that the positive obligation to protect and respect free expression shared by all members of the university should be enforced by appropriate formal sanctions, because obstruction of such expression threatens the central function of the university. We further believe--that such sanctions should be made explicit, so that potential violators will be aware of the consequences of their intended acts...
...eliminate Radcliffe's powerlessness over the students it admits. But there is a substantial anti-merger faction, consisting of some Radcliffe administrators, alumni and undergraduates. They argue that a full merger would mean a swallowing-up of women in an overwhelmingly male institution; Radcliffe, they say, can continue to function usefully as a women's institution in a male University...