Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chauffeured Cadillac from his Star office to Dolly Schiff's old suite at the Post to his twelve-room Fifth Avenue duplex, which is crowded with English antiques and modern Australian art. At a restored colonial farmhouse upstate, Rupert keeps trim by riding, skiing, swimming (40 laps in his pool) and thrashing around on a tennis court. He once challenged a group of his editors to play him, without their tennis shoes. "We have an old-fashioned marriage," says Anna, who is studying for a bachelor's degree at New York's Fordham University. "He's good with the children...
...other hand, Phyllis Keller, equal employment officer for the Faculty, defended the report's findings, saying the proportion of newly-hired women and minorities has been much greater than their proportion in the applicant pool...
...addition, even the most positive aspect of the report--the promise that considerable improvement will be made by 1978--is far from heartening. The goals set for 1978 are based on 1970 estimations of availability of women and minorities in the applicant pool; if the affirmative action program had made any progress since its inception, there should have been a tremendous increase in that availability figure over this period. With this in mind, even if Harvard reaches its goals during the next three years, the University will still be underutilizing the applicant pools' true minority and female representations...
...this issue may well prove to be less significant than it has been in the past. Nevertheless, because this issue is important to some Quad residents, I favor maintaining a slightly lower ratio of men to women at the Quad until such time as the changing applicant pool renders this measure unnecessary...
...University should not be satisfied when it meets its affirmative action goals, Bok said, because the goals are based on the proportion of women and minorities in the teaching position applicant pool...