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...addition to its investigation, the Committee must instruct its staff members and alumni recruiters to give first priority in the future to enrolling more well-qualified black applicants. Too often tradition-laced institutions like Harvard slip into an attitude of benign neglect. Such an attitude harms Harvard, not merely by its destruction of the ideal of a heterogeneous University community, but because it reflects a moral failure on the part of the school to actively combat minority oppression in the outside world. For Harvard to accept 10 per cent or fewer blacks in order to reflect the proportion of blacks...
None of his band had received any formal training for combat, Ambihal said. "I instruct the men myself," he explained. "I learned it from the movies." The others guffawed. "It is hard to fight planes though," Ambihal added earnestly. "We are short of many things to fight with, and we will accept help from anyone...
...committee presently sends volunteers to eight Massachusetts correvtional institutions to instruct inmates in math, reading and other subjects relevant to rehabilitation. The black studies courses have been among the most popular with inmates, Rodriguez said...
...season many college basketball coaches run lucrative clinics where they import high powered teachers and prestigious pro ballplayers to instruct the children of the upper middle classes. Occassionally poor black kids are given scholarships, but not often...
...time or another have enrolled more than 8,000,000 people. This fiscal year, Washington will pay $1.6 billion to companies, vocational schools and public and private agencies that contract to teach job skills to more than 1,000,000 of the unemployed and underemployed-and sometimes to instruct them in the three Rs and personal grooming...