Word: discussants
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...progress reports on corporate activity and open letters on university responsibility, students will most likely continue to remain relatively docile, convinced of the University's progress and concern. And there is ever indication that the University knows that it's playing a winning game. The Corporation did not even discuss the South Africa issue during the summer and, according to Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, President Bok may issue more open letters if "topics come up of widespread interest." In addition, the ACSR will continue inconclusive and seemingly endless review of corporate practices in South Africa...
Last spring the full faculty discussed Harvard's relation to its investments and then followed up the debate with a letter, signed by 140 professors, calling on Harvard to adopt a graduated, five-step policy promoting corporate withdrawal from South Africa. In addition, a small group of the letter's signers said they would meet with Congressional leaders and corporate directors to encourage the phasing-out of U.S. corporate activities in South Africa. The group of faculty, however, will not discuss its plans until classes begin, one its members said last week...
Cantor and a University-wide personnel staff of about 75 people are in charge of making sure the non-Faculty positions run smoothly. To that end, the personnel representatives from each school meet twice a month to discuss University policy, recruitment strategies and to share tips, Wickenden says. "And there is a regular informal flow of complaint memos, bitches, whatever goes on throughout the different schools," Cantor says. To reduce confusion, the personnel office distributed a thick memo detailing all personnel rules to every department...
Declared a group of 200 black leaders, who assembled at the N.A.A.C.P. headquarters in New York City to discuss the split: "Some Jewish organizations and intellectuals who were previously identified with the aspirations of black Americans . . . became apologists for the racial status quo. They asserted that further attempts to remedy the present forms of discrimination were violative of the civil rights laws . . . Jews must show more sensitivity and be prepared for more consultation before taking positions contrary to the best interests of the black community...
Beyond the stated agenda of grievances, there are some that blacks are reluctant to discuss openly. Many of the whites whom ghetto blacks meet face to face are Jews (one reason: some black ghettos were once predominantly Jewish neighborhoods, and often Jewish businesses have stayed in place even though their owners now live elsewhere). Blacks often see them as exploiting landlords, store owners and credit managers or as teachers who fail to educate black pupils. Jews working in or living near the black ghetto, in turn, fear the violence they see around them (as, of course, do blacks...