Word: recruite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...universities, however. It was President Lyndon B. Johnson's Executive Order 11246, which now, after many amendments and additions by HEW, requires all federal contractors, including universities, to have a written plan explaining how they will overcome past discrimination. "Affirmative action requires the employer to make additional efforts to recruit, employ and promote qualified members of groups formerly excluded, even if that exclusion cannot be traced to particular discriminatory actions on the part of the employer," the order states...
Perhaps part of the answer lies with the Harvard jock himself. Unlike many big-time athletic programs in big colleges, Harvard athletics does not and cannot recruit heavily and blatantly. The Ivy League does not permit it, and scholarships are severely limited. The athletic department does not have a very large budget to work with...
...that student activism has passed, black students have lost their only means of influencing Harvard admissions policy. Blacks are going to have to come to grips with their powerlessness in both alumni and faculty quarters. While it is not blacks's exclusive responsibility to go out and recruit, it is incumbent upon them to reinitiate an active vigil over Harvard admissions. If black students neglect this responsibility there is nobody else to carry it out for them...
...response came in the wake of a pending suit brought by five black patrolmen, who accuse city officials of not appointing black sergeants and failing to recruit more blacks into the police force...
Sullivan denied the patrolmen's charges that the police do not actively recruit blacks. He said, "When I was mayor in '68, we gave them the opportunity. We provided programs for those minority people, but they never went through with them...