Word: request
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Minority Student Alliance (MSA) is asking all Harvard students to boycott classes tomorrow to protest the University's paucity of women and minority faculty. While such a request is not unprecedented, it is certainly daring; if most students choose to attend classes, the hastily organized boycott will be a failure. Given the potential for College-wide embarassment, every Harvard student should think carefully about minority faculty hiring and make a conscious decision whether to attend classes...
...issue is zoning variances and Harvard's $50 million project on that site has been delayed by the Mission Hill "quasi-governmental body that advises the city on zoning decisions." Harvard's original request for building permits was rejected by the building department of the city on July...
Landes, who chairs the 21-member Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, made the request in a recent meeting with Spence after the Sociology Department's acting chair and head tutor attacked the interdisciplinary program's academic legitimacy...
...election, he has adroitly played the death issue to maximize the discomfort of the Democrats. After Harris petitioned for clemency, Deukmejian decided to conduct the hearing himself, denying Van de Kamp a high-profile role that ordinarily would have been his. That led Harris to withdraw his request for a hearing, complaining he would never get a fair one from Deukmejian, who as a state legislator helped draft California's death-penalty law. The Governor has now agreed to hear a telephoned plea for clemency from Mother Teresa...
While the entire S&L bailout is expected to cost taxpayers as much as $300 billion, the dire shortage of sleuths is partly caused by the Bush Administration's unwillingness to lay out a measly $25 million. Last year the Administration requested $50 million for the assault on S&L villains. Congress upped the authorization to $75 million, but the Administration balked. "If the violators don't believe they're going to be caught and stiffly sentenced, they're going to keep doing it," warned Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr., the subcommittee's chairman and a former banker himself...