Word: bowman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Record, was to discuss the final recommendations of the Placement Committee, the Law School body that sets up general guidelines for law firms' recruiting procedures at Harvard. Amazingly, the investigator's findings and the Placement Committee's recommendations contradict each other almost completely. The committee reported that Bowman acted in good faith throughout--that is, her reaction to the recruiter was not overblown and, some members of the committee said, was perfectly justified...
...that first headline--"Chicago Firm Exonerated"--outraged a large segment of the Law School student body. The Bowman case had become a cause celebre there, the focus of a controversy unusual for the school. Throughout the winter and spring, angry students confronted the Law School administration and the Placement Committee, demanding it investigate Bowman's case and offer her some redress, either by banning the firm's recruiters from the campus or at least by severely chastising the firm. Finally, the administration was forced to go further than it ever has on such matters, calling in the outside investigator that...
What actually happened in that interview does not easily lend itself to investigation. Bowman says the recruiter told her the firm once had "a gal like you" working for them--"she was just like you, only shorter"--and that the last black who worked for them now works for Clorox--"Isn't that funny, a black working for a bleach company?" John H. Morrison, the recruiter, categorically denies the offensive remarks. The matter, then, could only be decided in terms of Bowman's word against Morrison...
...School Council (the student governing body), the Black Law Students Association and the Women's Law Association all backed Bowman to the hilt. The battle between the students who wanted the Law School to chastise the firm, and the administration, which seemed to want to hush the whole thing up, intensified. Throughout the struggle, students kept suggesting that the real reason the dean refused to take action was the Law School's financial cowardice. Morrison's firm, like many prestigious corporate law firms, apparently makes a large annual gift to the Law School, and students felt that the Law School...
WHEN THE PLACEMENT COMMITTEE decided--after what was apparently an extremely stormy four-hour meeting--to recommend the dean announce that Bowman acted in good faith, just about everyone was satisfied. All they wanted, one student said after the meeting, was a Record headline telling Law School alumni that the students had won their fight--a fight against an administration they felt had more faith in law firms run by alumni than in the law students themselves...