Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every year for the past five years Faculty Council members have listened while Dean Rosovsky's special assistant reads the annual affirmative action report. And every year they have heard the same problem: the University is recruiting women and minorities at a respectable rate at the non-tenured level, but in the tenured ranks, women and minorities are still inadequately represented...
...admission of the ex-Shah to the U.S. is interpreted by Iranians as a politically motivated action, indicative of continued U.S. support for the deposed Shah and the forces of reaction for which he stands. It is regarded as a provocation reflecting a lack of respect for the will of the Iranian people. It comes as no surprise that it was orchestrated by characters such as Rockefeller and Kissinger, representatives of the power centers who had supported and benefitted from the Shah's regime...
...Since the action of singling out Iranian students, comprising only 20 percent of the foreign student population in the U.S., for selective harassment by Immigration constitutes what is known as suspect classification" (the casting of blanket suspicion of wrongdoing on a group classified only by race, religion, or national origin...
Therefore, we concerned Iranian students attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University as a matter of principle, express our opposition to the aforementioned administrative decree. We will not report to the Immigration and Naturalization Services until the legulity of the order has been established. Class action suits regarding this decree have already been presented to the courts by the ACLU and others...
There's no way enough can be said about a penalty-killing act that, forced into action five times--twice with two men down--yields not a single goal. And this, against the vaunted Terrier power play...