Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apartheid is based on the Bantustan and migrant labor system, and the color bar. The government declares that only 13 per cent of the land (the "Bantustans" or "homelands") is African, though three-quarters of the 24 million population is black. Africans may be citizens only of these areas, which are poor and eroded and contain neither towns nor mineral resources. This poverty forces them to find work in the "white areas." But as non-citizens in these areas they have no rights. They may not, in most cases, bring their families; they must stay in segregated "townships...
...color bar reserves better paying jobs for whites. As increasing industrialization demands more skilled workers, Africans have been moved up the job scale, but their wages are kept to a fraction of whites...
...reading period, did your academic tensions color your attitude toward your building, hallmates, and dorm events? Quad residents are spared that, because their classes and their homes are two very different sides of Harvard. They profit from the academic and extracurricular wealth of the Yard area, then come home to an intimate community whe)re a strong dorm life complements a strong house life. It's hard to sell abstractions like friendship and group spirit in an ad, so let me list a few of the by-products; newspaper subscriptimn costs shared dormwide, open doors, an unusually strong tradition...
...report--known at Harvard as the "Redbook," after the color of its binding--has turned brown with age. Various Faculty and administration moves have chipped away at the educational temple that was erected along the lines of the Redbook's blueprint, and as President Bok admitted on the night Rosovsky made his announcement undergraduate education at Harvard no longer has "a very clear focus or set of objectives...
...first move to generate discussion, Rosovsky presented the Faculty in October 1974 a 22 - page letter on the present state of undergraduate education. Perhaps mindful of tradition, Rosovsky also labeled the document by the color of its binding, but with a practical twist, dubbing it "The Yellow Pages." The letter, which outlines principal flaws and hints at possible revisions in undergraduate education, also declares Rosovsky's intention to establish "one or more faculty committees that will share with me the task of seeking broadly satisfactory answers" to questions the dean raised in the letter...