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Andres Paniagua, a Hispanic man who was denied a fellowship to the Philosophy Department which was administered by the affirmative action office, alleges in his 1992 complaint "racial patronage and favoritism in the recruitment, selection process and placement of fellows." The investigation is currently in the hands of an enforcement unit of theEEOC, according to Paniagua...
Hoyte asserts that my discrimination complaint "is without merit," and he attempts to pass on the responsibility of any wrongdoing to the University's individual departments and schools that serve as benefactors of the Administrative Fellowship Program...
...charge I recognize that the purpose of the program to attract qualified minority talent to Harvard University by providing a year of training through this fellowship is a laudable endeavor, deserving of the community's support. However, the fact that almost all the fellows admitted to the program during the last five years are Afro-American individuals, strongly suggests the program has systematically excluded qualified candidates from other minority groups...
Paniagua also charged in the complaint that he received a "terse" rejection letter two months after a decision on his application for a fellowship...
Hoyte said the fellowship program's selection process often extended past its June deadline into August. He said, for example, that the selection of fellows for the coming academic year are not yet complete...