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...convention in Las Vegas took turns manning phones to remind Congressmen that the council's 4.5 million members were watching. The 28 million-member American Association of Retired Persons also supported the bill. Far more effective, however, was a letter-writing campaign by one of the House's mightiest chairmen, burly Dan Rostenkowski of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. He and Chairman John Dingell of the Energy and Commerce Committee were incensed that Pepper had struck a deal to bypass their committees and take the bill directly to the floor. Rostenkowski sent out a barrage of "Dear Colleague...
...Executive Committee is made up of the president of the Board and the chairmen of the standing committees, who are chosen by the president and the other committee members. There is no real opportunity to nominate new members to the committee, Seidman said, adding that she thought this process leads to a closed committee with few women and minorities...
...Confusion and complacency dominate Harvard's minority faculty recruitment. From deans to department chairmen to the general faculty, few understand how to effectively achieve better representation, even fewer make a reasonably active effort to address the issue, and no one has a University-wide, systemic program necessary to successfully do so," the report says...
Members of the committee said they were open to a variety of approaches to the minority faculty dilemma, but agreed with administrators that quotas are not a practicable solution. Pforszimer University Professor Sidney Verba, the chairman of the committee, said his group would consult with faculty, department chairmen and student groups before making any policy prescriptions...
Despite the efforts of individual administrators and department chairmen, significant numbers of minorities will not be hired at Harvard until Bok and Spence combine forces and take the initiative, Kilson said. "We don't have a president who is putting a big-push imprimatur behind these matters," he said...