Word: audits
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...ESPP junior tutorial has...enroll[ed] undergraduates and graduates in a two-to-one ratio," Segal wrote in the Environmental Action Committee's annual environmental audit of Harvard. "As a member of the tutorial, I can personally vouch for the fact that this unique approach is exciting and rewarding...
...keeping in contact with their organization, and with placing no Asian-Americans on three Junior Parents' Weekend panels on race relations. The letter went on to complain about the ineffectiveness two of Epps' actions to improve race relations, a race relations hand-book and an upcoming race relations audit from an outside consulting firm (which was preemptively declared unsuccessful.) The writers charged that Epps had offended a visiting Japanese American performer--a performer who, in an interview, said the incident in question was insignificant. They concluded with a bizarre gripe about Epps addressing Asian American students in Japanese and Chinese...
...demands. We can only guess, and hope, that Epps' alleged penchant for speaking in foreign languages comes from an earnest, if slightly misguided, attempt to make minority students feel comfortable. But we can say that the two Epps initiatives the AAA presidents so confidently disparage, the handbook and the audit, are at least genuine attempts to address this campus's race relations problems--attempts that were much rarer before Epps took the race relations helm in September...
...true that the race relations handbook was unimpressive: a kind of popcorn sampling of resources and officials that could do little to delve into the real roots of campus tensions. But that, perhaps, was Epps' intent. His race relations audit, conducted by the Harvard Negotiation Project, was an odd idea that also did not yield an ideal solution, but represented a sincere effort to solve the problem. So did some of Epps' other initiatives: the race retreat last fall, and the changes he instituted in Orientation Week...
...press bombarded the White House with charges of cronyism and hubris. The release of the audit of the office by the accounting firm Peat Marwick documenting serious abuses and the FBI'S decision to move forward with a criminal investigation did not reduce the reporters' outrage. Nor did the White House's move to sever its tie with World Wide and contract temporarily with American Express...