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...letter to President Bok, the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) said the committee would try to "make sure that the issue of the AP&L power plant does not become a dead issue until Harvard has responded adequately to ACORN's requests...
Harvard is the largest single shareholder in Middle South Utilities, a holding company which owns AP&L. In its letter yesterday, ACORN said that if IRRC's study is "lacking in any respect," it will ask Harvard to set up a student-faculty committee to investigate the need for the proposed plant--which ACORN says is slight--and its probable environmental effects...
ACORN first distributed and gave to President Bok a petition--with the help of Harvard-Radcliffe Ecology Action--asking Harvard to study the plant and recommend that AP&L supply it with sulfur dioxide emission controls. Sixteen national organizations, including the United Steelworkers union and Friends of the Earth, have also written Bok letters asking him to support ACORN's requests...
...EEOC figures make these claims seem a little exaggerated. For instance. AP&L says it hired 80 blacks in 1971, but the total increase in black employees for AP&L and two other Middle South subsidiaries from 1970 to 1972 was 81. If AP&L's claims are true, then, Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies must have fewer blacks now than they...
Information presented in the lawsuit also sheds light on why Middle South has no blacks in managerial positions. AP&L has a "summer cadet" program in which it hires engineering students during summers--an ideal way to recruit and train future high-level employees. All of the summer cadets hired so far have been white, while unskilled jobs as summer laborers have gone to both blacks and whites. Middle South obviously can't just wait for black executives to come to them, and they obviously aren't doing much recruiting at black colleges, where there would no doubt be plenty...