Word: msa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ocasio, who is president of the Puerto Rican student group at Harvard (La Organization) and spokesperson for the Minority Students Alliance (MSA), being in the forefront of movements and at the center of controversy has always been as natural as breathing and speaking...
...found him very tough, very smart, and very sensitive to the complexity of what was going on," says Pforzheimer UniversityProfessor Sidney Verba '53. Verba, at 57 one ofthe most respected of Harvard's 300-plus seniorfaculty, chaired the blue-ribbon committee thatreviewed faculty hiring after the MSA--made up ofOcasio and leaders of four other undergraduateminority groups--attacked Faculty of Arts andSciences affirmative action policy for "confusion"and "complacency...
...months of talks between student leadersand the Verba Committee before a report was issuedin March, "We got along quite well," Verbarecollects. The professor, who also directs theUniversity Library, says he respected Ocasio'scompetence as MSA spokesperson in presentingissues and demands...
Spence originally created the Verba Committeeafter the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) wrote areport criticizing FAS for "confusion" and"complacency" in its minority recruitmentpolicies. And while student activists havecriticized the Verba Report for being too weak,they have endorsed it as a minimal first steptoward a more comprehensive affirmative actionpolicy...
While being assured that no vote had beentaken, one of the students said he was "neithersatisfied nor completely dissatisfied" by hisdiscussion with Marquand. MSA member Curtis Chang'90 said Marquand had not given him any assurancesthat the report would be approved or that it wouldnot be substantially weakened...