Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue was not the only controversy in which Harvard Treasurer Bennett revealed his view of how Harvard should handle its investments. Harvard's tenth largest investment sum is placed in stock of Middle South Utilities, one of whose subsidiaries, Mississippi Power and Light, employs only 4.5 per cent black employees in an area where 50 per cent of the population is black. Investigations of two other Middle South subsidiaries-Arkansas Power and Light and Louisiana Power and Light-conducted by the Equal Opportunity Commission, revealed similar employment practices. One EEOC official said, in releasing the employment figures, "it is difficult...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis., diarrhea, salamonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die n 60 seconds. Dilute the water 100 times with clear water, and the fish will die in 24 hours...
...true, as I have heard rumored, that several student leaders of the Peace Action group received $700.00 from the Faculty Discretionary fund in order to fly to Mississippi to participate in memorial servcies for the black students slain at Jackson State College...
...taken from those funds immediately and given to the families of the two murdered students. To send a delegation from Harvard is a decent gesture, but the funds should have been used for a practical perpose such as helping financially. Any one of the black cooperatives in Mississippi, or the Panthers Defense Fund, could use money...
...group of students, faculty, and staff of the Harvard Medical School will attempt to raise funds on behalf of the two black students killed at Jackson State College in Mississippi with a special showing of the film...