Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primary source of disagreement lies in the black students' demands for a 20 per cent quota of black workers on all Harvard construction projects...
...University yesterday called the demand illegally discriminatory and out of proportion to the 9.3 per cent non-white population listed for Boston and Cambridge in the 1960 census. Harvard does not have the power to demand a quota, the University added, because it cannot interfere with the practice of outside contractors on projects already underway...
Picked by Basketball magazine as one of the top ten players in the East. Hayes breaks the all-time B. U. scoring record every time he makes a basket. A 6'4? forward, he averaged 25.7 points per game last season and carried his team to a 14-10 record...
...must avoid digressing into Dodd's Dope Determinist Theory of History. The more important point is that the Song My massacre provided a little something in the way of self-affirmation for everyone. It is proving that a 90 per cent consensus of the American people can still be mustered on a clear-cut political issue. I. c., the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of women, children, and old people is dishonorable. Even if they are Orientals. One is reminded of Pat Paulsen's presidential campaign...
...administration has repeatedly failed to deal seriously with the issues OBU has raised. There are some outstanding examples: One of the University's arguments in saying it could not agree to a 20 per cent figure on construction sites was that the United Community Construction Workers (an organization of black workers whom OBU had said would supply the black work force) could not come up with enough men. The UCCW has never failed to supply the men it promised (at Tufts or elsewhere) and there was no reason to assume it would fail this time. This was a feeble excuse...