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...Bradford Swing, an assistant to the dean of the College who provides summer housing advice for transfer students and visiting undergraduates, called the number of new students "a sizable one." He said also that the University makes it clear that transfers are responsible for finding their own housing while they wait for on-campus openings...
...appointee, has been an outspoken apostle of Reagan's civil rights creed, which includes opposition to quotas and other coercive remedies for discrimination. The letters apparently grew out of talks between Pendleton and two of the Administration's leading civil rights conservatives, Counsellor Edwin Meese and William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Their aim: to keep Reagan true to his conservative beliefs. Pendleton said he wrote the letters to let the President know "there are people who believe in his original agenda...
...officials and many civil rights leaders swiftly read White's opinion as invalidating all affirmative-action plans that involve employment quotas. There are hundreds of such plans, both voluntary and court-ordered, in force in businesses and public agencies across the nation. Justice Department Civil Rights Chief William Bradford Reynolds held a news conference to announce that in light of this "exhilarating" decision, his office would carefully review all affirmative-action employment plans in which the Justice Department had played a part. Civil rights leaders went into a display of public mourning. Maxine
...ONLY PROBLEM with Patrick Bradford production of A Raisin in the Sun stems not from the staring which is virtually flawless, but from the perfect pitch and shape of the play itself Since A Raisin in the Sun was written 25 years ago the question arises as to whether such a play can be possible today. The topical concerns abortion and housing in narrow terms, and hypocrisy and racism in broader are no less relevant today. But the themes would not, in all likelihood, receive the same warm and disinterested treatment Probably no one, and certainly few Black Americans, could...
Director Patrick Bradford deserves much credit for not forcing the play into the shape of a comedy, melodrama, or sitcom, because Hansberry's plot resists constraints of form, narrowly understood. Avoiding the two temptations attendant on staging a classic. Bradford neither lets the play pull all the weight of the production, nor reinterprets the play in silly ways--making everyone wear parachute suits, for instance. Bradford's active good judgment, dramatic flair, and sense of timing preserve the thoroughness and unsentimental freshness of the original...