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...Southwest Bank is headed by Colonel Isaac ("Zack") Long, 82, who says: "Our motto is first down and last up." Long earned his honorary officer's title while president of the St. Louis police board. He has presided over the bank's decisions since 1953, when a group of businessmen he headed bought a majority of Southwest's stock. The other big event that year was the death of two robbers in a gun battle during an attempted holdup of the bank. The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, a 1959 movie about the incident, starred Steve McQueen...
...November meeting and the University's subsequent decision to consider Isaac's proposal were the first indications that Harvard might prove willing to settle the case out of court...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) granted Isaac a "right-to-sue notice" in April 1980, indicating that a conciliation at the time appeared impossible. It later withdrew the decision for reconsideration, but has not yet ruled on the case...
When the administration turned down Isaac's tenure bid in 1975, the Faculty instructed the ad hoc committee responsible for recommending candidates for tenure to give preference to those who focused on the American rather than African side of the department...
...Isaac--a Black Ethiopian "Africanist" who specializes in Ethiopian language, literature and church history--subsequently filed a complaint with the EEOC charging Harvard with discrimination and lodged a suit against Harvard in Federal District Court