Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black students at the college had little difficulty understanding why Wellesley might not appeal to blacks, but they were not willing to watch the black community on campus remain a small and isolated off-shoot of a major women's college...
...black students' organization, sent to Ruth M. Adams, president of Wellesley, a list of proposals designed to make the college more attractive to blacks. Included in the list were suggestions that the college employ black administrators and professors, that it introduce into the curriculum Afro-American history as a major field of study, and that 20 additional black students be recruited over the summer to fill the incoming class...
Wellesley began the current academic year with a major in Afro-American studies and a young black woman who served both as a head of a house and a Black Recruiter. But the effort to recruit 20 black students for the incoming class had failed abysmally; over the summer only one additional student had been found...
...picture six weeks ago at a Press screening in L.A. and two days later was lucky enough to speak with Fritz Lang, a magnificent man and one of our greatest artists. Long recounted that a major studio executive said to him during the summer, "We don't want to make good pictures out here--only moneymakers with as little risk as possible." Neither Lang nor I could think of a single working director here who actively opposes this true production code: "They've all given up," Lang said shaking his head more in irritation than sadness, "Nobody in Hollywood fights...
Geoffrey P. Hellman, GSAS, suggested that Administration policy might be to build up a fear of major punishment and then "take a lot of wind out of our action" by being more lenient. "The overall effect would be at least as bad in terms of intimidation," he said...