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Rosovsky offers another explanation--many established scholars in such "conventional" disciplines want joint appointments so as not to lose touch with their special field. "In practical terms, the kind of people we wish to attract are established in a certain field and want to maintain a connection with that field," he notes. Because of this problem, the executive committee may offer candidates joint appointments. But some Afro-Am faculty say that desire for joint appointments indicates a disturbing lack of commitment to Afro-American Studies. Benjamin says, "A wholesale commitment to the department is necessary--many people seem to feel...
Rosovsky said he hopes the committee will reverse past University failures to attract prominent scholars in Afro-American Studies to Harvard. In the past eight years, Harvard offered tenure to five scholars, and each refused...
...black. He is also bald, has a beard and answers the phones in his campaign headquarters. He will also never be mayor of Boston. Sad to say, of course, because King's politics are refreshingly progressive. If elected, he says he would turn public housing projects into tenant cooperatives, attract more federal funds to the city and fire the guys who run what he labels the implicitly racist Police Department. As one might assume, King is expected to cut fairly deeply into White's traditionally strong constituency in the city's black areas. Although he harbors no good feelings toward...
...anchor the network news!" That offer isn't being made, at least not yet, but three people who pursue such interests-as well as five more equally busy gentlemen, from Statesman Henry Kissinger to Architect I.M. Pei-have lent their names and faces to a campaign designed to attract advertisers to some of their favorite publications. The journals all have small circulat.ions, and none bulges with ads. But oh what readers! Each of the endorsers subscribes to the magazine he is hawking; however, not all were aware of the company that they would be keeping in the campaign...
Hard up for cash, banks are willing to try just about anything to attract deposits. Some, like New York's Manhattan Savings Bank, are gemutlich meeting places where savers gather in the lobby to hear pianists play golden oldies. Others, like California's Crocker National Bank, have sought to humanize their temple-of-commerce image by handing out Teddy bears. Robert Klein, a marketing consultant to 15 banks in the West, reports that his savings-starved clients have given away 23,000 color television sets in the past three years and 650 mopeds in the past 90 days...