Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every indication is that it will be a real good drive," said Mrs. Samuel Bojar, chairman of a group of Harvard faculty wives assisting the drive. She said that the first two days had brought "far more response than in the past years...
Representatives of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) yesterday termed an Administration list of responses to black students' demands of last month "merely a flowery restatement of the status quo vis a vis black employment on Harvard's campus and black participation on Harvard's construction program...
Archibald Cox, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, and L Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, met with black students at noon yesterday and gave them a position paper and point-by-point list explaining what Harvard has done in response to their demands. The students said the reply was unsatisfactory and asked for a further response, which Wiggins said last night would probably be ready by today...
...Harvard agrees with the black students that the category of painter's helper should be abolished. "The students had asked that all helpers be reclassified as painters, but the Administration said that not all would be automatically promoted. A new apprenticeship program will be open to those former helpers who wish to join. The Administration will ask the Contractors Association of Boston (3 representative for black contractors) to appoint a three-man committee to review the qualifications of present painter's helpers and recommend changes in their status...
...Harvard will establish an apprenticeship training program, and is presently negotiating with the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission to set one up. The black students had asked for such a program to be established immediately. Harvard agreed with the students that the painters and helpers entering the program would not have their...