Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only have we not progressed a great deal...--both statistically and attitudinally--but I fear we have moved backward...in a number of areas" said the affirmative action report. The writer of the report criticized the University for its low number of tenured Black professors (1.4 percent) and female professors (3 percent...
...That report was issued...
...Harvard, wrapped up in three-and-a-half centuries of tradition, times never seem to change. For just last week, Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell issued a similar report documenting that Blacks only occupy 1.8 percent of Harvard's tenured slots. Does anyone hear an echo...
...University, but relies on an amorphous "pool" of Ph.D.'s to increase until Harvard hires anyone. It's obvious that some faculty are becoming fed up with the University's old song-and-dance routine too, as evidenced by Bell's opening (and fictional) scenario to his 13-page report: President Bok and all of Harvard's Black faculty are killed by a bomb, forcing the University to hire enough Blacks to fill 10 percent of its posts...
Critics charge that the soft money and large PAC contributions to candidates amount to little more than sophisticated vote buying. When tax reform came before the Senate Finance Committee in 1986, its 20 members received $969,000 from insurance PACs and $956,000 from energy PACs, according to a report by Common Cause. Says Nancy Kuhn, a fund raiser for Dukakis in New York: "It's no mystery why the chairman of the finance committee can raise more money than the chairman of the judiciary committee." Even some members of Congress conceded, in a 1987 survey, that campaign contributions have...