Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first part of the petition, summing up the tenuring problem, stated that "although seven candidates have been nominated for tenure in the department, with or without joint appointment, only two have been accepted." The student group called in its petition for the four tenured faculty that two separate visiting committees have said are needed. The department currently has only Eileen J. Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and of Music, who is on leave, and Ewart Guinier '33, professor of Afro-American Studies, who is semi-retired and only teaches half-time...
...middle of the city, now as then, sits Harvard, and recently that has become a problem. In 1636, Cambridge donated to the school the land upon which Hollis, Holworthy, Stoughton and Harvard Halls are now located. Yet in 1979, the city tried to restrict Harvard expansion into nearby neighborhoods, "downzoning" residential property and putting a height ceiling on construction in the Square...
...Crane, and to Brewer and his co-workers in the community relations department, the answer is a gradual "opening up of the lines of communication." "I took the initiative on a problem last month--finding a new home for the Observatory Hill branch library, and they listened. Those lines have to be systematically opened and kept that way," Crane said, "or else each party will keep on going its own way, and when something happens, all hell will break loose just like it does...
Perkins counters that cohesiveness has not been a problem in the department, and that the bureau makes no difference to its functioning. "We're not cohesive in having a single ideology," Perkins says. "There is a great diversity in our basic attitudes toward what constitutes good economics. And I hope that diversity stays with the department at least as long as I'm here." As for the advantages to professors, Perkins says, "Except maybe in the amount it's publicized, I don't think it makes any difference whether an economist does the research sitting at his desk in Littauer...
...Rouge, Houston, Atlanta, Boston. They were seeking success--even in Bogalusa, Louisiana, a kid learned to hustle. Even in Bogalusa, that small, relatively tight community, people failed and people made it. Bogalusa had a lot of safety nets out: family, neighbors, community, no matter how far you fall. The problem was that Bogalusa had no buildings tall enough to jump from; for one middle-aged man, the nets were useless, so he just sat in his car and rolled up the windows...