Word: conscious
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...task for a department that has consistently plagued the Faculty, and its students, with doubts about its worthiness. Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology and a former member of the executive committee overseeing the department, said as recently as the fall of 1979 about Afro-American studies, "Students are acutely conscious of the fact the study now has very little status, and have a right to be concerned." He added, "If a student leaves this University with a degree in Afro-American Studies, it should carry the same weight as any other degree at Harvard--and I suspect it doesn...
...harsher criticism that some faculty level is that of conscious discrimination on the part of one or more department, members during closed deliberations. Skocpol's case is the example cited most often, perhaps because alone among the candidates denied tenure, she utilized the University's grievance procedure, but some professors allude to other cases in which they say sexual discrimination may have played a role. For example, one professor in the Fine Arts Department notes that the department has chosen men to fill four of its last five tenured professorships over the last decade, although the pool of qualified personnel...
Most department chairmen deny that Skocpol's unprecedented grievance case will affect their future tenure considerations, especially since the procedures did exist previously. Some professors, however, argue that underutilizing departments will now prove more conscious of potential repercussions when considering cases of promotion. "I think people will be more careful. The administration is putting on more pressure," one professor predicts. Another, who asked not to be identified, suggests that fears of a similar incident might have made the Psych and Soc Rel Department more sympathetic to Langer in its considerations this winter. And just months after Skocpol's complaint, Josephine...
...racing clubs have sprung up on the island of Hawaii alone. Governor George Ariyoshi, for one, applauds the Hawaiians' new assertiveness. Says Ariyoshi, a Japanese-American: "In Hawaii more people understand other people's culture than anywhere else on earth. If we don't make a conscious effort, we are going to lose that." -By James Kelly. Reported by Michael Moritz/Honolulu
OPEC's sales are slumping in part because the sky-high cost of crude has made consumers far more conscious about conservation than almost anyone had thought possible. In the U.S., consumption has dropped by 6.2% from year-earlier levels, and imports have slumped by more than one-fifth, to about 5.4 million bbl. daily...