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...delay of completion. Cruz says the wait on the bricks forced the masonry to be delayed until weather conditions worsened. Last winter's record storms twice tore down the protective covering and staging needed for the masonry work. Cruz claims that both the brick supply delay and the bad weather caused a two-month setback. Cruz also alleges that Harvard gave the black brickworker subcontractor "a horrendous time" even though he did a very good job. He says Harvard claimed that he didn't have a track record and the architect wrote the University recommending in so many words that...
...manager's failure to requisition some needed materials at the start of the project due to family problems caused additional delays in items such as steel, an error for which Cruz claims full responsibility. However, Cruz alleges, "Harvard's attitude was that when they saw the job was going bad, instead of helping me by assisting with the cash flow, they thought that I couldn't handle the loss because I was a minority contractor." Cruz explains that the University's contract with him required monthly payments based on his requests. He says Harvard started "tightening the screws...
Jewett admits with a slightly nervous laugh that you could interpret this trend as a hidden quota system. "I cannot disprove it except by having a bad year," he says, "and I hope we'll never have to prove it that way." Still, some critcism has come on the heels of the Bakke case which contends that Harvard does indeed strive for uniformity of "diversity." Justice Harry A. Blackmun, quoted in an article in "New Republic" by Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, says, "under a program such as Harvard's one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does...
...experts to be a factor in the Ivy League football race, let alone win the championship. There are simply too many questions in this year's Harvard attack, and too many returning answers from the arsenals of the other seven Ivy clubs. Keep in mind, though, that as bad as any Harvard team can be, it will always be better than at least four other teams in the league. So, lest we be called for Delay of Column, here is The Crimson's 1978 Ivy League Football forecast...
...when (and if) the people of this country begin to realize that there is nothing mystical or omnipotent about Ted Kennedy. He is just one of the run-of-the-mill liberal Democrats who want to spend taxpayer money with big, useless Government programs. If we think taxes are bad now, just wait till we get a national health plan...