Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
...demonstrators were calling attention to demands that Harvard promote workers now classified as "painters' helpers"-a majority of whom are black-and agree to employ a least 20 per cent "black and third world" workers on its construcion sites...
...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...
...per cent figure is based on 1960 Census figures. Even assuming the correctness of the formula (i.e., that the proportion to be applied to Harvard's construction force is the percentage of nonwhite population living in Boston and Cambridge) it is not a matter of esoteric knowledge that in the last nine years Boston has been losing white population at an extremely rapid rate while the nonwhite population has been rising. Is it honest then to use 1960 figures? Do they respond that no more recent data are available? Two phone calls this afternoon, to ABCD and the Cambridge Community...