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...That was the beginning of the breakdown. Once they got wind of the plan, many white parents reacted vigorously. They kept their children home from school and set up a Citizens' Committee for Better Education to fight the scheme. They probably would not have succeeded without black help. Discouraged over the prospect of integration in a city that was on the verge of becoming 50% black, Negroes in the state legislature teamed up with white conservatives to support a bill striking down the integration plan and substituting a decentralization program that would require a student to attend the school...
...review team has prepared a detailed breakdown of individual departments. This excerpt revealed that there are many departments without female teaching faculty. This condition implies that some chairmen deliberately screen out women applicants. The University must inquire into the hiring policies of all department chairmen. Particular attention must be given to those who have no or few women faculty. We realize that there are some academic disciplines in which there are very few women, but we are also aware of a long standing tradition of denying employment to women solely because they are women. Appropriate administrative machinery must be established...
...wondrous decade of the '50s, the response to a single ink blot could be used as the standard by which to gain value judgment of this or any other period [Sept. 6]. Furthermore, probably only Psychologist Fred Brown would have discovered that a 51% "female" response indicates a breakdown in sex-role differentiation, whereas a 51% "male" response does...
There is a massive breakdown in law-and-order that should be curbed. I wanted to contribute something that said, "Preserve the system...
...additions constitute half of the current breakdown of women professors holding tenured positions in three of Harvard's eight faculties: Education (1), Medicine (5) and Arts and Sciences...