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Despite this uninspiring performance, the school will almost certainly secure the Department of Labor's blessing. Administrator's grudging steps in the last months--increasing its employment advertising, seating a handful of students on admissions committees, and hiring its first woman associate professor (Mary Jo Bane) and four low-level minority instructors--will likely satisfy the department's "goodfaith" requirement...
commissioning a computer study on how fast Kennedy was driving when his car went off the bridge, drowning Mary Jo Kopechne; buying a study of the tides off Chappaquiddick that night in July 1969; and distributing videotapes of the computer re-enactment of the fatal accident to major news organizations...
Admirable as these moves are, they can only be first steps. Even with the hiring of Mary Jo Bane, the school still will have no tenured women or minorities. And this year's graduating class from its Master of Public Policy program boasts only two minorities among its 60 students. Those are startling statistics about an institution that aims to staff government posts that themselves increasingly deal with affirmative action questions...
Earlier in the week, school officials revealed they are close to hiring the first female associate professor in the school's history. The appointment of Education Department deputy assistant secretary Mary Jo Bane, an associate professor on leave from the Ed School would be effective spring term...
...idea we would be arrested once we joined in that hug," Jo Swanson, who chose to represent herself, said yesterday. Swanson said the group was never given a warning or told to disperse before police arrested them...