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...said in a second meeting with the students late yesterday that he had arranged for a conference today with Martin Gopen, employment counselor for the Urban League, and construction company officials. He said he would be present at the 4 p.m. conference...
...replied that he had not talked with representatives of the firm, Vappi Construction, Inc., but he said that he had called Gopen and had given him the list. He said that Gopen was to call his office sometime later during the day to report what progress had been made...
When the students reconvened at Bok's office, he said that he had arranged a meeting for today between himself, Gopen, and an officer of the Vappi company...
...notable success with one large Cambridge employer--Harvard University. Harvard has has hired more than twelve secretaries through the House. One social worker contrasted Harvard's response to that of "other Boston colleges closer to the House that practice a subtler form of discrimination." Several other Boston colleges rejected Gopen's approaches...
...Gopen also helps local residents find jobs by organizing employment nights at South End House. He brings large-scale employers to the House to talk to local residents. The results are dramatic. "More people got hired on the day the phone company came here," Gopen beamed, "than the telephone company got through a whole year of advertising." Since the passage of job discrimination laws, many firms have wanted to hire members of minority groups. But the South End residents are sometimes too scared or too apathetic to travel all the way to a firm's main offices, Gopen explained...