Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a report released by Norman, the CUE paid more than $8000 for using Science Center computers last year, after several years of decreasing costs...
MANY people at Harvard know about the Verba report, which was compiled last year by a senior faculty committee appointed by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence. In response to the Minority Alliance (MSA) 1988 report on minority faculty recruitment and hiring at Harvard, the Verba committee made specific recommendations towards improving the recruitment and hiring policy for minorities and women...
...eliminating the two key elements of the three-part structure, the Faculty Council in one stroke doomed all the work of the Verba committee to irrelevance and failure. At the same time, they publicly praised the report with meaningless rhetoric and touted their appointment of an assistant dean to a now essentially meaningless role...
Fewer people realize, however, that since then, the Verba report has failed almost completely. It has failed not because its recommendations were poor, but because the Faculty Council, the steering committee of the faculty, vetoed them without letting the full Faculty consider their merits. The only success achieved was in terms of good publicity for the Administration, which has been able to make it appear that the Faculty is responding to the Verba report, when in fact almost nothing has been done...
...pictures made by photojournalists have the legitimacy of being news, fresh information. They slice along the hard edge of the present. Photojournalism is not self-conscious, since it first enters the room (the brain) as a battle report from the far-flung Now. It is only later that the artifacts of photojournalism sink into the textures of the civilization and tincture its memory: Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, an image so raw and shocking, subsides at last into the ecology of memory where we also find thousands of other oddments from the time -- John John saluting at the funeral...