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...Harvard-Radcliffe Task Force for Affirmative Action will stage a demonstration Sunday to "tell the University and the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) that we aren't sleeping," William G. Fletcher '76, a spokesman for the task force, said yesterday...
...Fletcher added that while the tables have been largely successful, the meetings have suffered because students either "believe they know everything about affirmative action or else they have become too bogged down with work...
...show dramatized the unregulated state of affirmative action at Harvard, as well as Harvard's continuing policies of discrimination against women, blacks, and University workers in general, Fletcher said...
...Fletcher '79, a task force member, said yesterday the show portrayed the "incestuous" union of Harvard with an unenforced affirmative action plan...
...with cast and crew to a minimum. Nicholson went for several weeks hardly speaking to Forman, largely by his own choice. Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, himself an Oscar winner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), groused about the way things were going and was replaced halfway through the filming. Fletcher fought with Forman through 17 takes of her first day's shooting. "Milos is very authoritarian," she says. "He doesn't want to discuss anything with his actors. He wanted us to surprise him with improvisations, but he never told us so." Encomiums for the director at Oscar...