Word: duked
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LAST week, Duke University approved a plan requiring each of the school's 50 departments to hire at least one more Black professor by 1993. Those departments that fail to meet the goal will undergo an outside review of their recruiting practices...
...Duke's bold and progressive plan came after weeks of mounting pressure from the student body for an increase in the school's minority faculty. At the same time, activists occupied school buildings at Williams College and the University of Vermont in protest over those schools' dismal records in the hiring of minority faculty. Penn State was the site of similar activity...
...plan recently adopted at Duke should serve as a model. If an individual department within five years cannot find a single qualified minority professor at either the junior or senior level, it should be forced to explain its reasoning and to have that explanation reviewed. If Spence does not take this route, he and his fellow administrators may find concerned students looking to Williams or Penn State for models about how to produce change...
...Jesse Jackson inspired the poor and liberal intellectuals, while cornering the Black vote, rivalling the Duke for a time. In the end, however, his lack of government experience and his past anti-semitic associations torpedoed his hopes for the White House...
...past, Carter has played with such luminaries as Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Coleman Hawkins. His musical style influenced such great performers as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, who played in Carter's band at the beginning of their careers, according to Cathleen McCormick, assistant director at the Office for the Arts...