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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This letter is addressed specifically to all those house masters and superintendents who have perceived a problem with the door-dropping of various materials to their houses, but I hope all of you will read it. I sympathize with the occasional little problem that affects the houses as it would affect any college dormitory at any college, and appreciate that it takes clean-up time and money. Forbidding door-delivery of free materials, however, is a drastic and unnecessary step that offers little gain for the houses involved while depriving students of ideas and information and threatening the financial viability...
...year lobbying the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the need for improving and strengthening the faculty's recruitment procedures for qualified and distinguished minority and women scholars. After conducting individual interviews with key faculty members, a campus-wide petition which garnered nearly 2500 signatures, and a carefully orchestrated letter-writing campaign, the Council--along with the many student groups who supported the effort--succeeded in getting the faculty to adopt changes in its recruitment methods and its administrative structure, summarized in the Verba Report...
...Some did; some didn't. If I got a letter from a fellow and I said, "Gee, he's a nice guy. Give him the funds," do you know what a terrible mess you could make? These things are so complex. They have to be looked into, studied and everything else to come out with an answer. I didn't stop and study each of these. I couldn't. There were thousands coming...
...another century, when Spanish ships braved the unknown to discover new lands and Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. Even Italy is awash in cash and exuding optimism, despite creaking public services and revolving-door governments that can be in and out of office faster than it takes a letter to go from Rome to Milan. "To speak of Europhoria is right," says Foreign Minister Gianni de Michelis. "There is a change of perception, not just among governments but among the people...
Last month, University Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred Glimp '50 helped introduce Stanford University President Donald Kennedy '52 to an alumnus who would pay more than $9500 to print Kennedy's letter in favor of University candidates in Harvard Magazine. Glimp gave this aid to Kennedy though Bok was severely criticized three years ago for similarly helping to campaign against HRAAA...