Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bell, a former dean at the University of OregonLaw School, said law schools--intentionally orunintentionally--exclude minorities from thefaculty by considering only traditionalcredentials. Bell contends that as long asappointments committees require their facultymembers to have had Law Review membership orclerkships with Federal justices--activities inwhich he says very few minoritiesparticipate--qualified minority professors will beexcluded from the faculty pool...
...School's arguments still have notconvinced the BLSA membership, however, and theorganization's leaders have promised to push fortheir goals through the summer and next year
Though divestment activists were disappointed by the composition of the committee, they hope that it will decide in favor of divestment. "Even though I am a little skeptical about the purpose and membership of the committee, it can do some good," said HRAAA Executive Director Dorothee E. Benz '87. "Who knows? Maybe they will even make the decision finally to divest...
...prompted the petition candidates themselves to look for more long-term means of opening up Harvard's method of governace. Seidman said that she is disturbed by the power of the nine-member Executive Committee, which sets the agenda for meetings and makes special decisions such as choosing the membership for the joint committee...
...government councils than their mothers' generation was, they remain second- class citizens. At work -- women hold 51% of the jobs in the Soviet Union -- they find themselves confined to low-paying positions and are noticeably absent from management posts. In the Communist Party, they make up 29% of the membership, but no woman sits in the ruling 13-member Politburo and less than a dozen in the 307-member Central Committee. Almost 60 years ago, Lenin described the woman's lot as "barbarously unproductive, petty, nerve-racking, crushing drudgery." Not much has changed...