Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Discrimination problems among employees at Harvard are hidden. Significantly, while every personnel officer and high-level bureaucrat with hiring privileges insists that there is no discrimination in his or her department, they will not vouch for others. The general feeling is that discrimination does exist, but everyone is quick to point out it is not in his nest. Nevertheless, there are two noticeable types of this "hidden" discrimination--above and beyond the indubitable predominance of white males in the ranks of senior administrators and tenured faculty...
Harvard employees don't do anything about discrimination, however because clear-cut case are few and far between. There are channels for employees to take--such as requesting a formal review by the office of the associate general counsel for employee relations--but most are just too scared to go the bureaucratic route. There is no union, no bargaining power. As one employee explains, "You can't do this kind of thing alone...
...FACULTY of Arts and Sciences' overwhelming vote on May 2 to approve the much-publicized Core Curriculum program will alter the basic shape of the "Harvard education" for years to come, just as the General Education proposal did after its institution in the late '40s. While it is true that the Core will not affect the curriculum of anyone now in the College--a factor that probably accounted for the marginal student opposition the plan received all year--the Core will affect subsequent classes at least until the end of the century...
When the first sketchy outlines of what became a very intricate proposal came to light last year, most students and Faculty members believed that only five new areas of general education would be established to replace the three now in existence. But the Core as it stands today recommends a much more rigid program, with ten rather vague areas in all, out of which students must choose eight. This is unacceptable: although we recognize the inevitability and practicality of some sort of Gen Ed revision, ten areas constitute an unnecessarily excessive infringement on students' freedom of choice. The idea...
Perhaps we should not be too shocked at the decision by a court that still bears so clearly the mark of former president Richard M. Nixon. We are, however, both surprised and disappointed by the Carter administration's stand on this issue. The Solicitor General's office has failed to rally to the press's defense, bolstering instead the search power of law enforcement officials...