Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has decided to investigate the possibility of religious prejudice in the practices of the Law School's Placement Office...
...article in the Law School's student newspaper, the Law Record, prompted the study. In the article, Miss Eleanor Appel, director of the Placement Office, said that "the Jewish boy is slower to receive an offer than his twin who is not Jewish...
Since the Law Record article appeared, the Law School has taken several un-official steps to study the Placement Office. A committee, formed by representatives from different Law School undergraduate organizations, has begun to look into the problem of discrimination. Specifically, it will seek to discover whether any law firms do discriminate, to find out how other law schools have handled the problem, and to make re-commendations...
...subcommittee is making a more through study of the Placement's Office's role in the Law School. Their report, however, is at least two months away...
There appear to be at least two separate questions involved in the study of possible discrimination in the Placement Office: how much -- if at all -- do the firms themselves discriminate; and how much does the Placement Office either accept, condone, or aid any existing discriminatory practices...