Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spiro Agnew threatened to censor the mass media Harvard's Department of Athletics took the lead last weekend by twice censoring the Harvard University Band's halftime show...
Friday night the hand prepared a new script to ridicule the censoring practices of Harvard, Typical of the quick alterations was a new formation. F--; However, during the first quarter of the Yale game. Pittenger read the new band show and conductor James Walker was summoned to the press box. The decision was that another formation (CU T?) had been...
...current controversy over painters' helpers has starkly outlined one of the major problems facing Harvard as a large-scale employer: How can it move blacks and members of other minority groups up from their traditional, low-level jobs, to the higher-paying jobs held almost exclusively by whites in the past...
...would be surprising if one could not find examples of discrimination in Harvard's employment and promotion practices. The prejudice pervading American society generally means that. at least at the blue-collar level, blacks get poorer jobs-partly because discrimination denies them the needed job skills and education, and partly because those who judge blacks abilities harbor their own pools of prejudice. Given this, SDS's charges that black painters' helpers have been denied proper promotion undoubtedly have some basis in fact in some cases, even if many of the specific counts which SDS hurled at Dean May cannot...
...real question about the SDS argument lies in the overall pattern they claim to see in these cases: that Harvard is systematically attempting to drive down the wages of its skilled employees-painters in particular-by hiring them in categories lower than those merited by their skills. It is true that Harvard has not always been the most generous of employers during the past decades: its wage scales have lagged behind those of other Boston employers. The Wilson Committee on the University and the City admitted this in its report of a year ago, and went on to note that...