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...than 1,000 people, invoking Britain's 150-year-old Sus (for suspect) law. The statute allows the police to question and even detain random suspects if there is reason to believe they may be planning to commit a crime. Overuse of the Sus law is a frequent complaint, not only in Brixton but elsewhere in the country. Blacks are twice as likely as whites to be arrested under the law, and black community leaders in Brixton claim that harassment rates run far higher than that. In Brixton, moreover, the law appears to have been used more widely than...
Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, last week filed a complaint with the federal Equal Opportunities Employment Commission (EEOC) charging that Harvard discriminated against her on the basis of race...
...Wright's complaint is not that she was denied tenure, but that the Afro-Am executive committee turned down her request for the extension, which she says the committee routinely grants...
Under the grievance procedure guidelines. Wright may choose one member to the three-member hoc committee that will hear her complaint. Dean Rosvsky and Nathan Huggins, chairman of the Afro-Am department. select the other two committee members. But the committee rejected as "inappropriate" Wright's choice of Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies, and asked Wright to select someone else...
...committee's rejection of Southern, along with it's refusal to grant her an extension, prompted Wright to file a complaint with the EEOC and consider suing the University, Winston D. Kendall, Wright's lawyer, said this week. He added that Wright is keeping her original choice of Southern...