Word: reporter
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...faculty committee, formed in response to a student report that charged the University with complacency in its minority faculty hiring policies, met for the first time this month and is undertaking a review of past records on affirmative action at universities...
Verba, who is Phorzheimer University Professor, said the group hopes to present its recommendations to Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence by late November. Spence and the Faculty Council, the executive steering committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), will then consider the report, which is expected to produce a plan for revising Harvard's affirmative action policies...
Spence created the committee last May after he and President Bok met with students from the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) who had released a highly critical report on minority hiring last April...
...report demanded a substantial revamping of the University's efforts to increase the representation of minorities on the faculty, and said the first step should be the immediate appointment of a student faculty committee to examine the problem...
...more or less official tongue. But a growing number of Filipinos are calling for a kind of linguistic liberation, charging that English undermines the country's identity. Last week a wide-ranging study commissioned by a Philippine Senator blamed the language for inducing a national inferiority complex. Said the report: "Thinking in our native language but expressing ourselves in English results not only in a lack of confidence but also in a lack of power of expression." The statement, alas, was written in English...