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They watched as imbalanced gender admissions quotas were eliminated, and women were finally on equal footing with men in the Harvard admissions office...
...appointed a committee, chaired by Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch, to look into the admissions policy. Opponents of an equal access admissions policy argued that Harvard alumni would not stand to see women admitted at the expense of men, and that donations to the College could drop significantly if women were admitted on an equal access basis...
...push for equal admissions had a great deal of support from undergraduates, male and female alike. In the 1972 Commencement ceremonies, 70 percent of the graduates attended with red armbands over their black robes to protest the quota system of admissions...
...Horner argued that “defining what equal admissions means” was the key task, and that the admissions process should not necessarily ignore the gender of the applicant...
...show was Chico and the Man, part of a reel of highlights from NBC's history. By and large, major Hispanic TV characters are still just that, history--Freddie Prinze's Chico, Desi Arnaz's Ricky Ricardo--even though Latinos are America's fastest-growing minority, now roughly equal in number to African Americans. The disparity is not new, but it has never been so embarrassingly glaring. According to the 2000 Census, Hispanic Americans number 35 million, or 12.5% of the population, a nearly 58% jump since 1990. But on TV? A report by the advocacy group Children Now found...