Word: quota
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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...
...NCAA point is well taken, but one must wonder whether the quota on Canadians would produce the desired effect. Wholesale importation did not begin to affect Eastern hockey, at least, until the mid-60's, when Boston University. Cornell. R.P.I., and New Hampshire followed Clarkson into Canada for their players...
...real purpose behind the quota must be elsewhere, and it may just lie in the resentment of the majority of Eastern colleges, at least, that have watched helplessly as Cornell, for example, destroyed their hockey teams year after year with almost totally Canadian rosters...
...resolution for a minority groupsadmission quota was one of several aimed at redirecting the emphasis of department curriculums. Others recommended revamping curriculums to include greater communications between planning students and residents in urban communities...