Word: itness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A little over a year ago, on December 7, 1988, a woman was raped in her Science Center office. It was late afternoon.
Later, in the weeks and months that followed, the rape did not disappear. Its memory remained in the endless Undergraduate Council debates about how to improve security. It lived on in the faces of the uniformed security guards who arrived at the Science Center. And in the 2 a.m. phone...
But things have happened, of course. The immediate aftershocks in the community were tangible, and the reactions, like the Science Center rally, were obvious. The community became something like a rape victim itself. It expended energy rebuilding its sense of security.
As a stop-gap response to the dearth of women and minority faculty members here, for example, Harvard can establish a program that offers minority and women scholars visiting one- or two-year research and teaching positions. Although everyone agrees that this is not a permanent solution to the problem...
But it is not enough to direct these protests at individual professors, since only the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a policy-making body can institute the structural changes necessary to guarantee a more diverse faculty. The Verba Report's original recommendations, especially the call for independent affirmative action...