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Privileged Families. Leaders of East Pakistan's Peking-and Moscow-oriented parties seized on the relief debacle to reinforce their demands for more autonomy for their region. The cyclone aftermath deepened the hate and envy felt by East Pakistan's dark, rice-eating Bengalis for the taller, fairer-and wealthier-wheat-eating Sindhis, Punjabis and Pathans of West Pakistan, the dominant half of the divided Moslem country. Anti-West Pakistan riots among the Bengalis forced ex-President Mohammad Ayub Khan into retirement last year. Successor Yahya, who has scheduled for next week the first general elections since Pakistan...
...added, "It also seems fairer to our team that they occasionally have an opportunity to play this traditionally big game on home grounds." Considering the possibility of a game with Harvard at Hanover, Dartmouth's Director of Athletics Seaver Peters said, "We've only talked in a very preliminary...
...Would increased enrollment of women be a fairer policy? If the question was taken to its logical conclusion, than all identifiable groups should receive representation proportionate just to their numbers at large and not to the ability and potential of the individual applicants within a group, race, or area." - Chase N. Peterson, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, in Feb. report on merger...
...Would increased enrollment of women be a fairer policy'... if the question was taken to its logical conclusion, then all identifiable groups should receive representation proportionate just to their numbers at large and not to the ability and potential of the individual applicants within a group, race, or area...
...wonder that there are angry women demanding fairer treatment. I have to repress my anger because I am unable to find another job in management; and if I rock the boat here, I get fired. There are no calls for women in management regardless of capability, background or education. If I were a guy, I would be very much in demand. But being a woman, I have educated myself right out of the job market...