Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of minority and women faculty recruitment, Dean Spence, Associate Dean Mas-Collel, the Faculty Council and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) confirm their satisfaction with the status quo. By rejecting the establishment of Affirmative Action Departmental Representatives and the Standing Committee of Affirmative Action Representatives, FAS is telling department chairpersons to keep up the good work...
...student body should also be wary of the appointment of Mas-Collel as the Affirmative Action Associate Dean. In light of Professor Mas-Collel's absence at the meeting with MSA and his statement that in his position he intends "to make as little noise as possible," I can only hope that Professor Mas-Collel will demonstrate more vigor in the future...
Certainly now is not the time for complacency. According to Mr. Ronald Quincy, director of Harvard's Affirmative Action Office, compared with a pool of eight prestigious universities, Harvard ranks eighth in numbers of tenured women faculty, fifth in minority tenured faculty, sixth in nontenured women faculty, and sixth in nontenured minority faculty. Harvard's own Affirmative Action Plan for 1989 states that "On the basis of the university's formula to determine underutilization of women and minorities, FAS currently shows a shortfall of 17 senior and 11 (tenure) ladder female faculty...
...Bingaman, national field director for the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), says his group hopes to mobilize students who are pro-choice but politically inactive...
...version of the dog-eat-dog world of rock and roll. But what these terms mean never really becomes clear; The Tooth of Crime could be about some sort of competition between rival gangsters or even drag racers. Uncertain references to knives, guns, engines and a deejay cloud the action...