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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...
Spence could not be reached for comment yesterday, and Curtis Chang '90 and other members of the MSA did not know who would be on the committee and when it would first convene...
...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...
...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...