Word: correct
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quotes accurately reflected the true feelings of the broader student body. Personally, I cannot believe that a vast majority of Harvard students reject the idea of bringing the campus together at a large-scale social event with a top-notch live band and refreshments to match. It I am correct, The Crimson did an inferior job of reporting the event and in so doing did a disservice to the entire Harvard community. And if I am wrong, then Harvard social life truly is in a sorry state, and I find myself hard-pressed to serve as social chair of this...
...applied in 1980 for a less strenuous desk job as a road dispatcher. At the time not one of the California agency's 238 skilled positions was held by a woman. Joyce knew, however, that two years earlier the county had enacted a voluntary affirmative-action policy designed to correct that imbalance...
Voluntary affirmative action. According to last week's ruling, companies and agencies have the option of adopting voluntary programs to hire and promote qualified minorities and women to correct a "manifest imbalance" in their representation in various job categories, even when there is no evidence of past discrimination. Decisions should not be made exclusively on the basis of race or sex, explains Assistant Professor Kathleen Sullivan of the Harvard Law School. However, these factors can now be legally weighed in the balance, says Sullivan, "with a thumb on the scale...
Mandatory affirmative action. The federal courts have imposed involuntary plans in some cases where there is strong evidence of previous discrimination against women, blacks and other minorities and employers have persistently refused to correct it. Evidence of minority employment is also required, under Executive Orders, for federal contractors...
...lost on the Conservative Club and the Harvard Administration. The next time they are smitten with the urge to confer freedom of speech on Pretoria's spokesmen, they should: (a) not publicize the event, (b) restrict entry only to members of the Conservative Club who can give out the correct password, (c) gag, bind and blindfold members of the audience before entry, (d) have a water cannon handy, just in case, (e) cordon off the campus to outside agitators (and Channel 7), (f) hold the event in Dean Archie Epps' office...