Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPORT'S most potent lines come in its first section, on "The Quality of Black Student Life at Harvard." Escaping the traditional stodgy prose of most committee-produced works, the report makes some surprisingly frank attacks on some of the problems Harvard creates for its black students...
...report's discussion of why improved treatment of Afro-American studies is so important to black students is well reasoned, but it covers little new ground. Using the traditional "negative-judgment" argument, the report says...
...report offers some new evidence to white Harvard when it tries to explain the blacks' search for "relevance" in Afro-American courses...
Working on the theory that Harvard blacks suffer from dual alienation--from whites at Harvard and from the black community at home--the report suggests two non-educational reforms: a review of the "morality" of Harvard's involvement in the community, and an effort to improve black social life here...
...proposals for community involvement come in sharp contrast to the innocuous pose of portions of the Wilson report. The dubious social morality of some of the companies Harvard has invested in--including the notorious Mississippi Power and Light--has long been a sore spot for both blacks and whites here. In combination with "discriminatory hiring and real estate policies," the report says that these investment practices make black students feel that "Harvard is uninterested in the 'morality' of its operations." The report's recommendation that Harvard use its fiscal might "to create an environment in which racial justice prevails...