Word: hires
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal court. The President wants ten more judges to be added and 40 assistant U.S. attorneys to press prosecution of the immense backlog of cases. To strengthen the public-defender program and provide for rehabilitation of criminals, Nixon will budget $700,000. He also recommended that the district hire 1,000 more police. "Increasing numbers of crimes," said Nixon, "are being committed by persons already indicted for earlier crimes, but free on pretrial release. Many are now being arrested two, three, even seven times for new offenses while awaiting trial." He called for pretrial detention of recidivists whose release presents...
...more immediate action can be taken, that fall within the jurisdiction or control, direct or indirect, of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or its constituent members. Although the students recognized that many Departments have attempted to employ a greater number of blacks, more must be done to improve hiring policies with respect to blacks. Contractors engaged to work on University projects must be required to meet hiring standards analagous to those established for Federal contracts. And the departments, including the academic, the operating, and the support departments, must make a greater effort to hire a higher proportion of blacks...
...first step toward total revolution. Despite their political phraseology, the black student groups tend to seek relatively limited goals. At Brandeis, students wanted "soul food" (see MODERN LIVING) in the cafeteria; when they got that, however, they went on to set forth ten demands, including the right to hire the chairman for the university's new black studies department...
...whether blacks should be given greater access to higher education, but whether they should have the exclusive right to say who should be admitted and what their education should be about. Faculties are unanimous in denying the black students the right to set their own standards and hire their own teachers...
...Long Island, Negro students and some whites at Lawrence High School staged a two-day walkout to protest, among other things, the administration's failure to hire more Negro teachers. They returned after agreement was reached with school officials on eleven points, including the hiring of more blacks, the installation of a painting of Dr. Martin Luther King at the school and time off for black students on Dr. King's birthday...