Word: action
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...report, presented by a Faculty committee headed by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba in March, called on the departments to designate affirmative action representatives, who would be responsible for identifying qualified candidates and drawing up reports on the departments progress each year...
...response to the report has been less than faithful to its primary goal of creating adversarial voices to spur each department to action. Instead, the Executive Committee of the FAS has proposed that the department chairs be responsible for the affirmative action duties on top of their already heavy administrative loads. Under this version, there would be little guarantee that departments with bad hiring records would improve their practices...
...weakened version of the affirmative action report is not only an attempt to lessen the non-administrative faculty voice, but also a direct slap in the face to a substantial group of students who have been committed to forcing FAS and the University to increase its minority hiring...
...says that the case has helped ease the confusion a little. "Just the other day in civil procedures class we were discussing what circumstances are needed to get a class action," she says, adding that she then remembered what she had needed to file her own case...
...national team thought he was ready this year. After one of the team's goalies was injured, Kenney was asked to join the team for the Marlboro Cup tournament at the Meadowlands. He didn't see any action, but that didn't matter...