Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying "to carve out a specific legislative agenda," Sharp says. At the meeting, officials discussed a number of specific issues, including the composition of government committees which pass out federal research dollars and several specific statutes. More importantly, however, the participants raised questions of inclusion in the decision-making process. Sharp says, for example, that had it not been for "an 11th hour move," single-sex colleges might have been eliminated from Title IX, which regulates federal dollars for athletics. "When we look for ways to increase equal opportunity across the board," says the ACE's Shavlik, "single-sex institutions...
...report concluded that because, once admitted, students shared the same University resources, the policy of separate admissions committees was "anachronistic." Although the committee's recommendation called for equal access to be instituted "as soon as practical that is for the admission of the class of 1980," the process of combining admissions committees, in effect, began more than a year before...
...academic year Harvard and Radcliffe moved their separate admissions committees into adjacent offices in Byerly Hall--Harvard occupied one side of the building and Radcliffe the other, sharing only the reception area. The committees also worked together that year to jointly-produce a pamphlet of information for prospective students, process applications from all foreign students, and visit high schools...
Some Strauch committee members voiced concern that Harvard alumni would object to reductions in the number of men and that Radcliffe alumnae would object to the combined process as just another example of the "Jonah concept"--Harvard swallowing up Radcliffe. But those objections never materialized. "I haven't heard of anyone who was upset," Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean for special projects and a member of the Strauch Committee, says...
When we first contacted Dr. Motlana, he invited us to his home in Soweto. What we didn't know at the time was that whites must obtain a special visitors permit from the government to enter the black township of Soweto. To avoid the troublesome process of getting a pass, we suggested that we meet for dinner Johannesburg and asked Dr. Motlana to choose a restaurant. He politely declined...