Word: cramer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philadelphia Inquirer won its fifth straight Pulitzer for the international reporting of Richard Ben Cramer from the Middle East...
Much the same thing happened to James Cramer, a sociologist at the Georgetown University Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure. Cramer was hired for a one-year teaching job at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973 and promised that he would be considered for a permanent job. But the university, under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, created a program designed to give hiring preference to women and minorities, and Cramer did not get the job. He sued-not to get a job, but to test the principle of exclusion by sex. Federal District Judge D. Dortch Warriner...
...preferential treatment in the Cramer, Weber and Bakke cases was not imposed by a court, but was "voluntary" (in Weber, however, the quotas were voluntary only in a special sense, since they resulted, as is frequently the case, from a need to satisfy federal rules). The Supreme Court has upheld court-imposed quotas in cases where past discrimination has been proved. But the Bakke case may help to clarify the legality of giving preference on the basis of race or sex in the absence of a court order and where there has been no judicial, administrative or legislative finding...
...James Cramer, 31, who claimed Virginia Commonwealth University refused to consider a white male for a teaching job. A federal judge ruled in his favor...
...James Cramer '77, who has been described as a "ruddy-faced, breathless Philadelphian" and who remains a living legend within The Crimson's portals, told me last November that I hadn't the least idea what miscellaneousness meant, and I stopped writing this column. For reasons beyond my control, however, I'm taking it up again--age doth not wither nor custom stale...