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AS things currently stand, however, none of those steps will be taken. The Faculty Council removed or watered down most of the recommendations of the Verba Committee report on affirmative action. And while Andreu MasColell, the new assistant dean of affirmative action, seems well-intentioned, there is probably little he...
Lasting change will come only with an increase in student pressure on the faculty and administration. The ad hoc committee must mobilize the student body; only then will the faculty take note and act.
During the last two decades at Harvard, there is a direct correlation between the degree of student activism on the issue and the actual hiring of minorities and women. In order to institutionalize student pressure, the council should make the ad hoc committee a standing committee. This is not an...
To be effective, student pressure should take new, more exciting forms. A one-day boycott of classes taught by white men would raise awareness. So would encouraging students to sit in on classes taught by minorities and women for a day. These actions would ensure that the issues of race...
But it is not enough to direct these protests at individual professors, since only the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a policy-making body can institute the structural changes necessary to guarantee a more diverse faculty. The Verba Report's original recommendations, especially the call for independent affirmative action...