Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...university has indeed gone out of its way to recruit and admit blacks, Chicanes and American Indians, and has earned a reputation as a leader in redressing minority imbalance in the student population. Though Judge Shorett specified that his ruling applied only to De Funis, the university is concerned about the impact of the decision and will appeal to the state supreme court. The argument will likely be that traditional tests reflect middle-class white values and so entitle the university to use special means of evaluating minority applicants. Moreover, says Law Dean Richard Roddis: "We are trying to bring...
...last ten years or so, Harvard football fans have been able to rely on certain recurring themes. Every year, Harvard would recruit enough talent to play in the Big Ten, and the freshmen coaches and the various local diversions would waste it. Coach John Yovicsin consistently stayed with his dive, sweep, incompletion offense, and if the defense was good, the Crimson would plod to a three-way tie for second...
...significant corollary action in some faculties is the concerted attempt to recruit advanced degree female candidates in order to increase the population of women in that particular discipline or profession...
...incident before it gets out of hand. And the show of force-or occasionally a calculated withdrawal as a gesture of confidence in local leaders-is usually enough. At the same time, police have established better relations with minority groups, and most big-city forces are trying to recruit more blacks. The percentage of blacks on police forces is still disproportionate to population figures, but most cities expect to achieve sharp increases. Detroit, for example, hopes to have a police academy enrollment that is 50% black...
...biological barriers by sorting people out according to inherited differences in intelligence. Increasing the nation's wealth to make more room at the top would also be ineffective in reducing class barriers, Herrnstein reasons. Some poor people would become well-to-do, but "the growth of wealth will recruit for the upper classes precisely those from the lower classes who have the edge in native ability." This will only "increase the I.Q. gap between classes." Advances in technology compound the problem; as machines take over the easy tasks, the jobs that are left may be too difficult...