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...time we stop hiding behind our individual issues and see the connection between them all,” wrote Benjamin H. Schatz ’81 in a letter to The Crimson. “Women’s issues affect every single one of us and demand our full support...
...Crimson leaked a rough draft of the report, which was to be finished more than a year later.While Bok criticized The Crimson for releasing excerpts from the unfinished draft, leaders of minority groups criticized Bok for commissioning a report undermining affirmative action. Bok addressed the controversy in an open letter that spring, defending the University’s admissions and hiring policy and reasserting his support for affirmative action.But, then-president of the Black Law Students Association Penny Marshall said the open letter “does not address or disavow the findings of Klitgaard, and we are concerned about...
...Kennedy’s bid for the presidency. “He was an eloquent voice of reason for our times,” Kennedy said. “In another age he would have been a founding father.” And former president Bill Clinton, in a letter read by Galbraith’s grandson, wrote that “one of the great joys of the presidency was getting to meet and to know people I had long admired. John Kenneth Galbraith fit squarely into that camp.” Many affectionately recalled Galbraith?...
...Hale Champion, one woman they recruited chose to take “a major position in the federal government.”Nevertheless, KSG students past and present reacted to the accusations swiftly, with the first response coming merely hours after the WEAL complaint in a letter of support signed by over 80 alumni who declared the lack of diversity amongst K-school faculty “shocking.”Outcry from students at the school also gathered pace, with mention of the WEAL action in a letter sent by the Kennedy School Student Association (KSSA) to the administration...
...indeed, there were many influential officials who suggested that Harvard was a haven for communist influences that intended the destruction of American values. The fervor became so prevalent that the post office promptly delivered to the office of then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 any letter addressed to “Kremlin on the Charles.” Undergraduates faced the prospect of having to demonstrate their “Americanism” in order to qualify for entry into many professions. There were loyalty tests for new teachers, background investigations for future civil servants...