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Local 195 officials refused to comment last night on whether the walkout would continue. Union representatives left yesterday's Labor Commission hearing minutes after it began, charging the panel with pro-city bias...
ACCORDING TO RIFKIN, we should throw off the burdensome pre-occupatino of growth and cast aside notions of economic and technical progress. This strikes a responsive chord with anyone following the present election campaign. But the author is guilty of a personal bias himself. Entropy is clearly pitched at the industrialized Northeast and Trilateral Commission types. Rifkin says frugality no longer exists in our "high-entropy society"; he contends that leisure has o verrun the work ethic; and in our mechanical, materialist value system, we have forsaken the pursuit of spiritual consciousness...
After the ceremony, Jewish leaders strongly criticized Georgetown for accepting the gift. Ira Silverstein, director of special programs for the American Jewish Committee, said the Arab Studies Center has a "clearly-marked pro-Arab, anti-Israel bias in its selection of curriculum material, its faculty appointments and speakers...
Problems have also persisted in the area of the department's "intellectual mission." Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies and a scholar of Ethiopian languages, literature and Church history, filed suit this summer against the University, charging bias in the decision to deny him tenure. Isaac contends that Harvard discriminated against him because he is strictly an "Africanist." Rosovsky has said in the past that Afro-Am should place emphasis on the "Americanist" side of the concentration. The University's defense in the case is that the Faculty's instructions to give preference to Americanists over...
Huggins says now, "We originally tried to organize a concentration with a historical-cultural bias. As it worked out, it seemed other options were open to us. We're now looking for a different type of balance, trying to find people trained in one of the conventional social sciences who will help direct undergraduates." In other words, Huggins hopes to strike a balance that will serve a wide range of student interests, including law, business and government on the one hand, and teaching, literature and the humanities on the other. "Which is in no way to suggest a dimunition...