Word: reporter
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...meeting we had with Dean Spence and President Bok at the end of the spring term, they made known their agreement with the basic ideas of the report and their decision to follow our suggestion and form a Senior Faculty Committee to study this issue. The Committee would come up with specific recommendations which would then be considered by the Faculty in full...
From our conversation with the committee's members, we understand that they will issue a report to the Faculty before Thanks-giving recess. This report will include specific recommendations, not only general statements. We understand that the Committee will take into consideration the recommendations in our report and the ones included in a report written by a similar Faculty Committee at the University of California at Berkeley. We hope that Harvard's report will follow the same lines...
...lacking in aggressiveness and take some direct action to improve the situation on those departments. Any plan to improve the Faculty's recruitment efforts which is only based on incentives will have, from our experience, less than satisfactory results. We therefore feel that one of the recommendations of the report should be to implement these actions...
...committee members said that because of their schedule, it would be very hard for them to meet with us formally again before the report comes out. We understand this, although we are still willing to meet with them at any time. However they will hold open sessions with members of the Harvard community to ask for their input. We expect to attend these hearings to further present our views...
From our first meeting, we received the impression that the committee is willing to work towards solving this problem in a way that will benefit all of the University. We are heartened by this promising attitude, but we will wait for the committee's report in order to study it before responding to it. If we find their recommendations to be satisfactory, then we will press for prompt action by the faculty. We are optimistic, but also cautious. Wendell C. Ocasio Minority Student Alliance