Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these suspicions, the new black middle class seems less obsessed with whites than the old bourgeoisie used to be. Says Oscar Weaver Jr., a supermarket owner in Liberty, Fla.: "The black middle class does not regard the white as an enemy but rather as a challenge." In general, blacks can take whites or leave them, and often at quitting time at 5 o'clock, they choose to leave them. As a black personnel recruiter in New York City says, "The only thing that keeps my head intact is the chance to get with other people now and then...
JUDGING from several newspaper articles, there seems to be a misunderstanding in regard to the proposed plan of private instruction for young women in Cambridge. The opinion prevails that a way has been found to admit women to Harvard College. Nothing of the kind has been done. Provisions have been made to enable young women to be instructed by Harvard professors: and if in time the number of such students becomes large enough, a second university may be built up at the side of Harvard which will give young women the same college advantages that young men have at present...
...Alberta B. Arthurs, dean of Radcliffe's admissions, added this week that the committee members are "all very much aware and proud of the fact that Harvard is unique," and that the emphasis of the committee would be to take an internal look at this community's needs without regard to those of other universities...
Preliminary support for sex-blind rather than one-to-one admissions among committee members seems to be influenced by the feeling that federal legislation may be passed in coming years that will force all university admissions procedures to be done without regard to sex. But several members of the committee say they fear that a sex-blind procedure would favor men and could never lead to more than a 40 per cent admission rate for women. "Even if Harvard itself takes a totally unbiased approach in sex-blind admissions, the influences of high school guidance counselors and existing norms would...
Arthurs says the committee is still open-minded on the question, and that she hopes the members can "determine what is right for this institution without regard for what we might be pressured to do from outside sources...