Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...definite sign of its commitment to solve the problem by following up on its anouncement of Tuesday night, and agreeing to a specific percentage goal for employment of blacks in construction jobs-one comparable to the percentage in the adjacent population, say 10 to 12 per cent. Achieving even this increase in employment will be no small task; insisting on a commitment to the admittedly arbitrary-and perhaps nearly impossible to achieve-20 per cent goal seems pointless...
Sophomore Dave Silver swept to two wins in the dives last weekend against fairly good Army opponents, and Gerdon Jones and Jan Milligan of Navy are likely to be even less of a challenge to Silver who has excellent backup help from Dick Eisenberg and Tom Wallace...
...where it must hope to cut into Harvard's advantage rest upon four swimmers-Bo Rose. Can Parlier. Randy Nettling, and Dan Baas, Parlier finished right behind Harvard captain Mike Cahalan when Cahalan won the 50-free in last winter's Eastern Championships. Rose. a sophomore, may be an even better sprinter than Parlier...
...University has contended first of all that setting the minimum number of minority workers at 20 per cent would be discriminatory since the proportion of non white workers in the metropolitan area work force falls far short of that figure. OBU disputes the Administration figure, but even if Afro were over-estimating the minority group percentage, their demand would still be legitimate. Tired reservations about "reverse discrimination" are insufficient excuse for not making every possible effort to assist minority group people in their effort to overcome the immense burdens which American society imposes upon them...
...these principles or issues is the extent to which the University should become an active, formal partner in group research efforts. It has already done so in a number of cases: the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, the many Centers and Institutes, the Materials Project, and even the several research funds such as the Milton Fund. A number of other proposals have been denied. Clearly such decisions involve several factors such as the wisdom and relevance of the venture and its ultimate cost to Harvard's limited resources as well as the felt need of faculty groups for special research facilities. Since...