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Consultants on diversity insist that the training they give has value. R. Roosevelt Thomas, founder of the American Institute for Managing Diversity, says corporate America must first redefine the word. "Diversity means differences and similarities," he says, be they in race, gender or corporate culture. He teaches executives to focus on skills and not familiarity. "In a foxhole, I want someone who can shoot," he says. "I don't care where they're from. Some folks have to be reminded of that...
Sure, they’ll run a box on Page 2 dutifully reporting a misspelled last name or a wrong address, but what if you insist that the newspaper correct a broad mischaracterization of you or your organization? Nah, you just don’t like our angle...
There are pedagogical matters to be considered in any proposed calendar change, and these are matters that concern faculty. We should not be presented with a fait accompli, but we should insist upon a formal process of consideration and review, the same kind of quality debate that would be given to any proposed reforms in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As it is now mid-April, and we as a faculty do not operate with the same apparent efficiency as the Undergraduate Council, the matter of calendar reform should await another academic year, a new Dean of the Faculty...
...workplace, a green proponent started a campaign to do away with paper cups and get everyone to use coffee mugs. While convenience will take precedence over environmental correctness more often than not, it is heartening to see such issues come to the fore. Someday, Time will insist that letters to the editor be sent only by e-mail. Vivek Mehrotra, Santa Clara, California...
...homelessness has made more progress in the past five years than in the previous 100 thanks to Philip Mangano, the Federal Government's homelessness czar. When the history of the Bush Administration is written, we will remember Mangano as its finest appointee because he has had the courage to insist that homelessness must not be managed but solved...