Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to a recent ROTC drill at Harvard, the Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC) plans to stage a rally this Thursday in front of University Hall, said ARAC spokesperson Thomas A. Lauderdale...
...increase popular support for the rally, ARAC has decided to invite speakers from various student groups such as the Women's Alliance, Bi-Gay Lesbian Students Association, Minority Students Association, and Students for Creative Action...
Quincy, who directs Harvard's affirmative action office, said that considerable progress has been made in hiring junior faculty. But he said that a "full-court effort" will be needed to make similar improvements in the ranks of senior faculty...
Harvard's large size allows different faculties to follow their own affirmative action programs, Quincy said. Although this decentralization sometimes aids hiring efforts, the lack of a "campus-wide game plan" more often tends to work against such programs, he said...
Over the next 25 years, affirmative action will become a "business necessity," Quincy said. He described current efforts to make minority individuals a part of the American workplace as "vastly insufficient," saying that employers need to be more creative and aggressive in their recruiting...