Word: mission
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...educational institution, a part of the struggle for social justice, or a corporation? In most of its operations, the University can act out all of these roles without suffering an identity crisis. But the question of divestment from Shell pits Harvard's interest in social justice against its mission of profit-making and endowment growth. The Harvard community should decide which mission will take priority...
...stand behind the mission of social justice, because it is more integral to Harvard's educational goal. A divestment of $34 million will probably have no serious economic repercussions for Harvard. But the University seriously compromises its educational mission by sponsoring repression and environmental damage in Ogoniland...
...educational institution, Harvard is dedicated to the development of ideas. Political repression, which seeks to stem the flow of ideas, directly contradicts this mission. Implied in protecting the development of ideas is protecting the people who develop those ideas. The intellectual community, therefore, becomes critically weak if it allows the silencing of dissent...
...before the Columbia confrontation, Seton Hall announced that Governor Christine Todd Whitman would be prohibited from receiving a public service award on the campus due to her support for a woman's right to choose. "No public recognition is given to those espousing positions contrary to our Catholic mission," said Monsignor Robert Sheeran, president of Seton Hall...
...love everyone in our frontcourt," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. "We are legitimate forwards that can score. I said it before, and I will say it again: We are riding Rose's back. She's on a mission...