Word: racially
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...system for selecting a house is described as controlled choice. Students, together with parents and administrators, look at the houses and rank their top three choices. The final placement decision is determined by these choices and by the school's desire for geographical and racial balance in each of the houses...
Also that day, The Crimson reported that in the past Harvard security guards had criticized Marshall for hiring her former law firm to write a report that exonerated the University on a racial discrimination suit, a suit brought by several Harvard guards...
...nominated as an associate in 1996. Some said then-Governor William F. Weld '66 should have nominated a African-American judge for the seat, since the Massachusetts bench had until that time been occupied entirely by white males, with only one exception. But many pointed to her stance on racial matters; prior to immigrating to the U.S., she was active in anti-apartheid matters in her native South Africa. And so despite her detractors, Marshall became the second woman ever to sit on the SJC bench...
...some of her actions as Harvard's General Counsel. When some University guards filed complaints against Harvard, she picked her own former law firm to handle the investigation. Her subsequent report found that the University was not guilty of misconduct; but in 1997, a jury found that the racial discrimination that one guard had complained of led to his dismissal in 1993. Admittedly, Marshall showed poor judgement in selecting her former law firm to handle the investigation, but in this case, no permanent harm seems to have been done. It is also noteworthy that Marshall called for the original investigation...
Marshall's report found no misconduct on Harvard's part, but in 1997, a jury ruled differently and ordered Harvard to pay over $2 million in compensation to one of the guards. The jury found that the racial discrimination that Viatcheslav Abramian complained of seven years ago led to his dismissal...