Word: action
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...Spence says that list of courses may grow longer as FAS implements a new affirmative action plan designed to increase the number of minority professors. "There's a reasonable chance some of those people will indeed strengthen the field," says Spence...
...think what I wanted to show first semester was that the council could actually get things done, because the one word attached to us was 'ineffectiveness,'" Lee says. "If we could plan ourselves so that we had something coming every week, and make a definitive statement and take definitive action on something every week, then we were showing we weren't ineffective...
Diversity, as many have said, was a unifying theme for the year, if there is such a thing. From the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' latest wave of soul-searching about affirmative action to the appointment of the first woman to the Harvard Corporation, the University's seven-member chief governing board, the incorporation and accommodation of difference marked both faculty and administration. Whether it was the English Department's wrangling over the inclusion of new fields or the Board of Overseers' bitter election campaign, the politics of diversity were ubiquitous...
...accommodation seemed not to come easy for administrators and professors used to a higher degree of control. During the heated Board of Overseers campaign, officials joined in the fray, accusing the opposition of not having the University's best interests at stake. And in the Faculty, a new affirmative action plan, released more than a year after undergraduates demanded hiring reform, spurred student protest and professorial skepticism...
...Police order two Black students--Andre L. Williams '89 and Craig A. Cochrane '91--off a University shuttle bus and search them, having mistaken one of them for the perpetrator of a nearby shoplifting. A police spokesperson defends the officers' action...