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Following its refusal to grant tenure to Michael Useem, a radical assistant professor, nearly two years ago, the Sociology Department's decision to hire Skocpol and Taylor seemed to be a sop to the radicals. In the face of widespread protest over the departure of several radical economists and Useem, and with no commitment ever to grant tenure to the newly-hired radicals, the Sociology Department appeared to be simultaneously answering immediate radical demands reasonably and preserving the traditional character of Harvard sociology over the long range...
...subject of education, he called the all-white Boston School Committee a typical example of institutional racism. A predominantly white, Irish body, "members of the Boston School Board are prone to a parochial way of thinking," and the people they hire reflect this, he said. "Therefore one comes to the conclusion that the exclusion of other people in the school system, constitutes an institutionally racist body...
...Harvard before," says Elizabeth Reid, associate psychiatrist to the UHS. "There were very few Harvard graduates driving cabs ten years ago," she says. "In the spring last year, I saw an awful lot of seniors who were feeling terribly upset because they couldn't find anybody who wanted to hire them. That's a general anxiety throughout everybody, and that all of the undergraduates are aware of. Their chances of getting into medical school or law school or graduate school or getting a job that will interest them--that's very anxiety provoking and not at all neurotic...
...Pontiac, 25 miles from Detroit, and fans were already saying, "Let the Pontiac Pussycats go." The Wheels rolled into town with ambitious plans; they drafted such top college stars as Tennessee State Defensive End Ed ("Too Tall") Jones (the N.F.L.'s first draft choice) and set out to hire John Merritt away from Tennessee State as head coach...
...upset by death threats that he and his family occasionally moved into hiding. "It seems like you're on a runaway locomotive," he said. "It's a hopeless feeling-it's unreal." Underwood has announced that he will quit as soon as the board can hire a replacement. Furthermore, the 18-member committee appointed by the school board to review the texts is in chaos: at the first meeting, seven anti-book members resigned, declaring that they were under "pressures and ridicule...