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...Committee to Review Affirmative Action will not hold additional meetings this summer, but each of the nine members will conduct research into Harvard's--and other comparable research universities'--past performances in hiring minority and women faculty members, Committee Chairman Sidney Verba said yesterday...
Although the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), the state agency that is investigating a Harvard student's complaint against one of the nine all-male final clubs, is facing a severe budget cut, thousands of pending cases will not be delayed, a state official said yesterday...
Olmos, who is 41, is getting plenty of nourishment these days. Nine years after he earned a Tony nomination and L.A. Drama Critics award for his portrayal of the streetwise El Pachuco in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit, he is being touted for an Oscar nomination for his riveting performance in Stand and Deliver. Based on a true story, the film depicts three years in the life of a Bolivian-born math teacher named Jaime Escalante, who in 1982 helped 18 of his students at East Los Angeles' gang-ridden Garfield High pass the Educational Testing Service's advanced placement...
Stand has grossed $13 million, more than nine times as much as its initial cost -- not spectacular, but more than respectable for a movie that probably would not have been made five years ago. The film never dilutes its simple, tough-love message. Olmos, by turns funny and bold, is utterly convincing as Escalante, a stubborn optimist who refuses to compromise his ideals or lower his sights, exhorting his charges sotto voce to put two and two together and learn their way out of the barrio...
...parts, the first of which is slated to begin this fall, range from a Teacher Cadet Program at Bethune-Cookman which is designed to enhance academic skills and increase exposure to higher education for 20-25 middle-school students over a 26-week period, to faculty exchanges between the nine institutions...