Word: quota
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reardon said the committee tries to select a group of candidates with diverse talents, but he was hesitant to use the word "quota...
...recruiting a baseball [team] and you need a shortstop, is that a quota system? Quality is the number one thing that is important...
Most seriously, though, the Staff edges dangerously close to the quota game when it declares that any particular percentage of any gender, race, ethnic group or religion on the Faculty is either too low or too high. Why doesn't the Staff spell out the proper percentages of men, women, whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics and Jews that Harvard should employ? Academia, of all professions, should be a pure meritocracy. The Staff should be more circumspect about conflating unconnected issues into a picture of a misogynous Harvard...
Even though we were ostensibly fighting a war for democracy, there was only one black student in our class, and a quota system limited the number of Jewish students at Harvard and Radcliffe...
...Senate passed a bill yesterday raising by 30,000 this year's quota of temporary visas for high tech workers.The measure would also raise the ceiling to 115,000 for each of the next four years -- almost double the current quota...