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When the Faculty Council first discussed the dearth of women and minorities on the Faculty last spring, its members decided that the two were very separate issues. "Minorites and women will not be discussed in a single group," the report states in its introduction. "Even though for both cases the numbers are low, the problems relating to recruitment appear so different that throughout the remainder of the report these throughout the remainder of the report these groups will be considered separately...
THAT MEANS THAT Harvard does not receive large numbers of qualified minority applications for Faculty positions because there is a dearth of qualified minority candidates. The report does not describe this "unfortunate fact of limited supply," as it puts it, merely to proclaim despairingly, "That's the way it is; there's nothing we can do." Instead, it recommends several ways for departments to hire a larger share of minority scholars: reserving two visiting professorships each year for minority or women scholars; giving serious consideration to creating new Faculty positions for qualified minority candidates when openings don't exist...
Football (4-2, 2-2 Ivy): Despite a slew of injuries and a recent dearth of touchdowns, this team has performed up to expectations. Beating Army certainly proved a pleasant surprise, and the squad's defense appears as strong as it's been in coach Joe Restic's tenure. If the gridders can top Brown this weekend, and Yale falters, the Crimson has a shot at a share of Ivy glory...
...discuss course proposals that fall into their laps, they have the responsibility to take a close, critical look at the offerings under their jurisdiction. Where they see deficiencies--the lack of a class on some aspect of ancient or medieval history in Historical Study B,or the general dearth of courses in Science B, for example--they should create course proposals, find qualified instructors, and then do everything they can to convince professors to teach in the Core...
When Michael Herr's Dispatches first appeared in 1977, the critics applauded this unique rendering of the Viet Nam experience. Citing the dearth of compelling fiction from Viet Nam, they hinted that the novel and short story had finally proven themselves archaic in both form and sensibility, as evidenced by their inability to capture the immediacy and disjointed folly of this most foreign of American wars. Now Herr's book was something else, and they called it everything imaginable: rock 'n' roll reporting; a personal journal; a transcript of the "mad-pop-poetic/ bureaucratically camouflaged language in which Viet...