Word: function
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Corporation member Andrew Heiskell,former chairman of Time Inc., said that he doubtedthe self-perpetuating governing body would openits doors to the students. "If the Corporationwere to meet with anybody who wanted to meet withthem, it would no longer function," Heiskell said...
Heiskell claimed that holding an open meeting with concerned student groups would undermine the function of the Corporation, which is to run Harvard. It is condescending to students, however, to imply that the policy decisions made behind closed doors are, or ever could be, purely financial. Students have not asked to sit in on the Corporation's decision-making process, but merely to talk. That's a simple request...
...precedent it might set for schools across the land. Rather, it is important precisely because the ruling specifically limits its application to this particular fundamentalist group's complaint. The decision was not so much a ruling as an exception to the rule. The court seems to have abandoned its function of establishing...
...Corporation is going to meet with anybody who wants to meet with them, then it's no longer going to function," said Corporation member Andrew Heiskell, who heads Time Incorporated...
...supports this board, and we would liketo see the vacancy filled and the positionsappointed as soon as possible so the board cancarry out its legislative function," saidMartinelli. "But it is not likely that all theproblems will be resolved soon...