Word: committeee
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The committee agreed with $89 million in line-item cuts targeted by the Dukakis administration, added $16 million in cuts of its own and asked the governor to trim an additional $34 million from the budget.
Ronald Reagan? Ed Koch? Dan Quayle? Nope. That was Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. ("a stellar professor"--the CUE Guide), the Thomson professor of government, talking at a forum organized by the Undergraduate Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Minority and Women Faculty Hiring last Thursday night.
AS things currently stand, however, none of those steps will be taken. The Faculty Council removed or watered down most of the recommendations of the Verba Committee report on affirmative action. And while Andreu MasColell, the new assistant dean of affirmative action, seems well-intentioned, there is probably little he...
Lasting change will come only with an increase in student pressure on the faculty and administration. The ad hoc committee must mobilize the student body; only then will the faculty take note and act.
During the last two decades at Harvard, there is a direct correlation between the degree of student activism on the issue and the actual hiring of minorities and women. In order to institutionalize student pressure, the council should make the ad hoc committee a standing committee. This is not an...