Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most encouraging result of the discussions that followed the demonstration is the willingness of both the protesters and the film society chairmen to present a screening of Birth of a Nation with appropriate political analysis. It is doubtful that there will be any controversy about the movie itself; attacks on the film's content have been uniform in the last 60 years. But whether or not any original analysis emerges, a peaceful showing and reasoned condemnation of Birth of a Nation will do much to wash away the sour taste of Saturday night...
...tremendous surprise when, after the search committee's second prospective appointment fell through, Dean Rosovsky dissolved the committee this week. In its place, he set up a dual mechanism to find Afro faculty--writing letters to ten department chairmen asking them to look for possible joint appointees in their fields and Afro, and asking Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro Department, to suggest scholars who might fill posts in Afro alone...
...special subcommittee of the Faculty Council will screen the recommendations of Guinier and other department chairmen and then submit them to the ad hoc committees that pass on all Faculty tenured appointments...
Phyllis Keller, equal employment officer for the Faculty, points out that when the plan was introduced to Harvard, department chairmen "had a lot of anxiety over whether you had to hire women and minorities." Keller says that in contrast with other universities Harvard has not taken the line that departments have to hold specific appointments to minorities and women. "I think we have been wise in not doing so," she says...
This strategy reflects the thinking of Alan Greenspan, a persuasive free market conservative who will be sworn in as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers this week.* Greenspan, chosen by Richard Nixon, has already impressed Ford. He and the President will be co-chairmen of the economists' minisummit...