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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard announces its yield for the Class of '93 to be 71 percent, 1 percent off last year's level. Asian-American students amount to over 17.4 percent of the class, a record by 3 percent over previous levels. Minority student representation reaches 32 percent, also a record, about a point and a half above earlier levels. Hispanic students also were admitted at record highs, and reached about 6 percent of the class. Black student representation, however, remains set at about 8 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pluralism Enters the Mainstream | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Supporters of the amendment denied racist motives, and claimed that many students opposed the amendment--which lost by a margin of 40 percent--because it was associated with the relatively conservative Federalist Society...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Sitting In and Speaking Out in a Search for Change | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

Teaching staff who are not enrolled at Harvard, known as teaching assistants, currently constitute 15 percent of the Core teaching staff...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Ten-Year Review Focuses on Mechanics, Not Philosophy | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

With Verba's ever-lengthening list of faculty positions, it was no surprise that Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence tapped the government scholar to chair a committee charged with proposing a new affirmative action strategy at a time when only about 8 percent of FAS' tenured faculty are women and 7 percent are minorities...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: 'The Insider' Tackles FAS's Problems | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...During our meetings he was very approachable and a very reasonable guy," says Minority Students Alliance spokesperson Wendell C. Ocasio '90. "Although I'm not 100 percent pleased with what he did, he did it very professionally...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: 'The Insider' Tackles FAS's Problems | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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