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...School, too, had some problems with affirmative action this year, which stemmed from the Law Review's desire to increase the representation of women and minorities on its staff. Toward that end, the Law Review staff voted in February to adopt an affirmative action system. A few days after the vote, three Review staff voted in February to adopt an affirmative action system. A few days after the vote, three Review staffers resigned in protest, calling the new procedure a quota system. Shortly thereafter, the Review staff voted to adopt a different affirmative action plan, under which selection would...
...rights activism at Harvard will culminate at today's Commencement exercises, where class marshals will distribute 10,000 letters asking alumni to withhold contributions from the College, because the Faculty Council refused this spring to adopt a policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual preference. Protests of discrimination against gays steadily gained momentum during the year, from charges that University administrators were unfairly restricting GSA's rights to publicize its activities on posters and in student registration packets to the demands by gay students that the 1981 yearbook staff publicly apologize for describing Adams House as a "haven...
...another attempt to force the administration's hand, Colantuono introduced a proposal in CHUL asking the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to adopt a non-discrimination policy. Nine of the 11 University faculties have adopted statements asserting that they do not discriminate against gays in employment policy and admissions, or permit companies that discriminate against gays to recruit on campus. The Harvard Law School faculty alone passed without question a policy that covers all three areas, and recently enforced it by throwing Navy recruiters off campus because of its anti-gay bias. William L. Fleming, the president of the Committee...
...Council's decision not to adopt the policy has angered gay alumni, many of whom plan to donate to the foundation as a form of protest. The alumnus who proposed the foundation, a wealthy graduate who asked not to be identified because he is not "out" to all of his associates, said that he has spoken to many angry alumni, both gay and non-gay, who regard the Faculty Council's stand as "morally indefensible." The foundation will provide money for whatever end the students wish to see fit, "just as the Friends of Crew support the crew team...
Perhaps the greatest recent example of absurd University intransigience was its refusal last month to adopt a code explicitly promising not to discriminate against gay students. The Faculty Council was unable to find evidence of discrimination. What the Council did do was inform a large--and repeatedly harrassed--segment of the University population that the administration is unconcerned about their situation. In much the same way, Harvard has not taken the concrete steps it should to begin to solve the problems of race relations on campus...