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...faculty have opposed the idea of using race or sex as elements in the selection process. In fact, the day after the review supported a race-conscious policy, the chairman of a faculty committee scrutinizing the journal told editors that if they opted to use race as a criterion, the law faculty would probably abandon its traditional practice of sending the grades of top first-year law students to help with the selection of editors...
...artists but for the public, and to serve artists insofar as they serve the public...We have precise box office returns on every night of every show we support. We know whether it plays to full or quarter capacity and we take that into account. Not as the criterion but a criterion. You may have an experimental production which gets a lousy audience, and it would be unfair to condemn the theatre for that, but if they have a lousy audience throughout the year then one begins to think well, that they're not serving the public...
Since last spring, the school committee has protected its disproportionately few minority teachers from layoffs. In a pending court case, the Cambridge Teachers Association is claiming that the policy violates union contracts and that the policy violates union contracts and that seniority should be the sole criterion...
...Wilson suggested that the "right thing" was to ensure the fairness of hiring procedures and to conduct as extensive a search as possible for candidates for Faculty appointments. Beyond that, Wilson argued later on The Washington Post's op-ed page, excellence should be the sole, or nearly sole, criterion in making hiring decisions. Wilson also spelled out what he considered an alternative goal: the desirability of having a more diverse faculty...
Harborplace, in its first year of operation ending last month, attracted more visitors (18 million) than Disney World, earned $42 million, created 2,300 jobs and returned to the city more than $1.1 million in taxes. More important, it has lived up to Master Planner Rouse's criterion of the inner city as "a warm and human place, with diversity of choice, full of festival and delight." Like Faneuil Hall Marketplace, it has helped restore a sense of community and vitality to a divided, decaying, once apathetic older city...