Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like OBU leaders, Plotke termed the University's actions as "evasive." He said that Harvard officials had contradicted themselves by offering a quota regulating hiring practices when earlier they had rejected any type of quota, from OBU or anyone else. The University's claim that 9.3 per cent of the population of Boston and Cambridge is made up of minority groups is probably only half of the actual current figure, Plotke said...
...Each Faculty member will vote for as many of the candidates as he chooses in decreasing order of preference. For each category a quota will be computed and those candidates with as many votes as the quota will be elected. The candidate with the least votes is eliminated...