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...quality of black student life at Harvard" is obviously difficult to define and assess. It would be presumptuous of any committee, even one including black students or one which has listened carefully to the testimony of many black students, to declare what the "quality" of that life actually is. However, it is at least possible to determine something of the frustrations, and the hopes, experienced and expressed by black students, and, on the basis of such information, recommend certain specific courses of action which should be taken by various elements of the University in order to make the Harvard experience...
Obviously these grievances touch on areas well outside the jurisdiction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and this committee has not found it possible to amass and assess all the evidence in these areas. However we all strongly feel that Harvard should create an environment in which racial justice prevails at all levels and in which civil rights legislation is fully implemented. To this end we urge the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to convey this summary of student sentiments and our concern to the operating departments of the University, and to the Governing Boards...
...recommend the appointment of an appropriate committee to assess Harvard's hiring, contact, and real estate policies. We also suggest the formulation of a committee to re-examine Harvard's investment policies to assess the degree to which these policies retard or promote the economic development of the black people and racial equality in America, with a view to stimulating black economic development in ways analogous to the investment program recently announced by the consortium of American foundations...
...professor in the School of Public Health is flying to Nigeria tomorrow with a non-political, fact-finding United States mission which will assess the food and medical needs of both Nigeria and Biafra...
...view to change was a feeling, even in the government, that Palach's death had to be taken as a serious political protest. While President Ludvik Svoboda pleaded against the repetition of "this horrible deed," he declared sympathetically on television that, "as a soldier, I am able to assess the self-denial and the personal courage of Jan Palach." Student and some union leaders quickly moved to channel the nation's horror and sympathy for Palach into full-scale political protest. First in Prague and then in other cities, they staged memorial marches, vowed to go on hunger...