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Through the many speakers that were heard and seminars that were held, Blacks explored the dynamics of the problems that they lace on a personal, campus and national level. Some of these topics include AIDS in the Black community, the dearth of Blacks in the higher echelons of education and the need for activism on campuses...
Bush's Lukewarm Welcome Though every new President gets something of a honeymoon with his constituency, George Bush's debut as Chief Executive will be marked more by cool realism than by warm affection. The TIME/CNN survey conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last week showed that the dearth of popular enthusiasm that dogged Campaign '88 has persisted. Now it focuses on Bush and Dan Quayle...
Students concerned with the glaring inequality and injustice demonstrated by the dearth of minority faculty and administrators at Harvard must call the University to a truthful reckoning of its policies. Lest we be blinded by its deceptive statistics or silenced by its inadequate proposals, we must clearly communicate to the administration our commitment to a politics of inclusion that will enrich the University environment for all students. And we must demand that the administration make a similar commitment to effectively recruit minority scholars. Otherwise the deception that has excluded minorities from faculty and administration positions at Harvard will continue beneath...
Council members said that by Friday's deadline, there were candidate shortages in Dunster and Kirkland Houses and the North Yard, with the most severe dearth in Dunster. Several others among the 17 districts had an equal number of positions as filers...
...plan is well-intentioned, and is an innovative effort to combat the dearth of minority faculty here. But it is quite likely that the program would do more harm than good...