Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This little-noticed surge of student activism for minority recruitment is the most encouraging new blow in the fight against racism. Harvard students should take the cue and follow up on the report on Minority Recruitment with some action on minority recruitment...
...recent report on Minority Faculty Recruitment by the Harvard Minority Students Alliance demonstrated the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' dismal lack of any effort to recruit more minority faculty. The departments of Arts, Chemistry, and Biology--only 16 History, and Biology made 11 job searches and received 721 applications in 1986-87. Only four of these applications were from minorities, indicating that these departments make almost no effort to recruit minority applications, let alone to hire minorities...
...researchers at the Food and Drug Administration fear that the widely used drug could have caused between 900 and 1,300 babies to be born with severe birth defects, including brain damage. The FDA's concerns became public last week after the New York Times obtained a confidential agency report that raised the possibility of taking Accutane off the market...
...patients with severe acne who have tried other medications without success. It is highly effective, and half the million people who have taken it are women. There is no doubt that Accutane can cause birth defects, says its manufacturer, Roche Laboratories of Nutley, N.J. But Roche has received reports of only 61 malformed infants born to women who have taken the drug, and the company sharply disputes the figures in the FDA memo. Says Roche Spokeswoman Carolyn Glynn: "The data are grossly exaggerated." An FDA representative acknowledges that Roche's tally is correct and that...
...accounts of the resigned Justice officials, bellowed a loud no when asked last week whether Meese should resign. But not even Reagan may be able to stand by his pal when later this spring Independent Counsel James McKay issues what will be at best a highly critical report on Meese's unethical conduct...