Word: go
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only Black involved with the newspaper. The following year, five Blacks enrolled in the school's first-year journalism class. I hoped my visibility--I wrote a monthly column, Casey's Corner, which included my picture--had something to do with it. But I did not actively go out and recruit these people...
...wonder if I should blame myself for there not being more Blacks on The Crimson. I try to tell myself that Blacks must be willing to go through the "comp," like I did. But I still wonder if I should have recruited them. Should bringing more Blacks into the fold be another responsiblility minority journalists should bear, as college professors who are Black are expected to act also as big siblings to students...
...Massachusetts law would go further, raising the threshold to 90 percent. The law would also be triggered earlier--delaying a takeover as soon as a hostile bidder acquires 5 percent of a public company's stock, rather than 15 percent, as in Delaware...
This logic applies to our generation: we can contemplate gifts, because we were allowed to partake in the Harvard community. Harvard still has a long way to go to admit enough women and students from Native American or poor or Black or Hispanic backgrounds and hire a more diverse faculty. But financial aid and recruitment show a step in the right direction...
...Farrakhan is one person, one black person. Why is it that no black person seems to be rabid about Meir Kahane? Farrakhan is rejected by a lot of black people who wouldn't go near that man. It's not an equal standard -- one black person is all black people...