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President Bok and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence will appoint a panel of faculty and administrators to help design a more aggressive minority faculty recruitment policy, Minority Student Alliance (MSA) officials said yesterday...
...report's requests are modest, even generous. In the face of massive apathy on the issue, MSA asks only that Dean Spence set up a summer committee to investigate the need for a hiring plan and then publicly announce the committee's conclusions...
Dean Spence would be wise to follow MSA's advice; he would be wiser still to accept the full thrust of the MSA report and to formulate a centralized program of action. As the report clearly indicates, it is not enough to leave such goals in the hands of individual departments...
...sincere members of the Harvard community disagreement over the need for larger numbers of minority faculty. Considerable consternation and disagreement exists over how to remedy this problem. Consequently, demonstrating the existence of the problem is less important at this time than understanding it, and proposing useful solutions. The MSA report usefully reminds all of us that agreement about creative solutions, not a renewed demonstration of the problem, is called for at this time. For this reason I applaud what they have done and hope for additional constructive reminders in the future...
...general, MSA and other students associated with the Harvard Foundation have performed a valuable service at FAS. It is regrettable that they cannot depend upon their fellow students at The Crimson to assume an equally constructive and effective approach by accurately and intelligently reporting on affirmative action, on more than one occasion every spring. I also hope that your reporting will involve seeking out the opinions of the numerous individuals who hold responsibility for affirmative action on campus, instead of subtly constructing disagreements between the one or two minority administrators most easily available by telephone. John B. Williams Assistant...