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While the release of a specific five-year plan for the increased hiring of minority faculty at Harvard may be unprecedented, the substance of this new proposal is all too typical. Issued by the University's chief affirmative action official, Ronald Quincy, this report represents a continuation of Harvard's deceptive and regressive policies. In the face of both student pressure from the MSA (Minority Students Alliance) and after administrative pressure from the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators, the University's intransigence can only be viewed as an attempt to exclude minorities from its faculties...
David Koven, program coordinator of HRI, told the tenants before the purchase that he would show them the report, but he now refuses do so, said Kennedy. Reached this week, Koven said the evaluation "was done for our internal use only...
Home and family life -- even in middle-class suburbia -- is not what it used to be. With divorce commonplace, youngsters frequently careen back and forth between parents like shuttlecocks. "We used to send one report card home with each student and deal with one set of parents," recalls Kay Grady, a counselor at Hillview Elementary School in affluent Menlo Park, Calif. "Now we send two to two households and sometimes arrange for separate conferences." That is, if the parents have time. Single parents and two- earner couples are often just too fatigued at the end of the day to show...
...investigation of Kansas basketball, according to an N.C.A.A. report that mentioned no names, focused on a "highly visible transfer student." Most observers think the player is former Memphis State star Vincent Askew, 22. Askew was urged to transfer to Kansas by then Jayhawks coach Larry Brown, who left this spring to pilot the N.B.A.'s San Antonio Spurs. Askew spent the summer of 1986 on the Lawrence campus but did not sign on. He returned to Memphis...
Many police departments now have writtenguidelines that require officers to notify headquarters as soon as they begin a chase to report their reason for pursuit and their speed and location at regular intervals. Monitoring supervisors can call off a chase if they consider it unwarranted or when it threatens lives. In San Francisco, which enacted its chase policy seven years ago, supervisors cancel 85% of all pursuits by motorcycle cops. Dallas imposed strict chase rules two years ago. The result: chases are down 12.5% since last year. If the trend continues, someday the thrilling rides may be mainly confined...