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With views ranging from the rejection of Affirmative Action to the endorsement of bolstering the role of minority and women faculty members at the University, a panel of professors last night debated the merits of Harvard's hiring procedures...
Five of the seven professors, many of them citing the Verba report as a clear mandate for change in minority and women hiring, said they backed Affirmative Action because it puts minorities on a more equal plane in faculty searches. But two panelists said such plans are demeaning and harmful to the University...
...said that a small pool of minorities makes Affirmative Action more difficult to institute. "There are not many minorities in biology that we can appoint," he said...
Roderick J. Harrison, assistant professor of sociology and Afro-American Studies, said, makes Affirmative Action more difficult to its paucity of minority and women senior professors...
...calling Affirmative Action "not a good thing for Blacks," Thomson Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield said the program is "a kind of insult to the beneficiaries of it...It implies that you got [a position] without fully deserving...