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...member of the Afro-American Studies Department who helped organize the meeting said that the primary purpose was to create "a wide-ranging organization of black faculty and administrators." Such an organization, he said, could then take effective stands on issues like the Organization for Black Unity (OBU)'s demand that Harvard hire 20 per cent black and "Third World" workers...
...OBU yesterday began a boycott of classes to bring further pressure on the administration to meet the 20 per cent quota. Philip N. Lee, a third-year law student and chairman of OBU, said that two black students attended classes at the Law School yesterday out of about 90 enrolled. At the Business School one out of about 70 went to class, he said...
...OBU boycott. Lee said that the students involved plan to "cut classes for the rest of the year until [they] decide what to do." He said that he hoped the faculty would contribute by cancelling classes until the OBU demand...
...hard to believe that at this time Harvard is seriously putting forth its first argument about quotas being discriminatory; fortunately, its agreed commitment to 9.3 per cent disposes of the theoretical issue. But let us look closely at that figure and Harvard's unwillingness to accept the OBU demand for 20 per cent, as important in it self and as illustrative of Harvard's attitude of giving inch by inch grudgingly-which belies their statement of Dec. 2 that "our interests are the same as OBU on these quesions...
...cent is a "correct" figure shows not only at best sloppy use of data, but also shows a typical lack of sensitivity to black demands at Harvard and in the world. Were Harvard truly interested in meeting such a quota, moreover, they would acknowledge the necessity of meeting related OBU demands as well: black workers can never compete for available jobs unless job agencies in the black community are given detailed notice of openings at the same time such notice is given to white unions; and unless there is present on site a monitor responsible to the black community many...