Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With respect to the alumni, this means notifying local Harvard Clubs and their members of the Search List names from their areas, and hoping these alums follow up on the list in addition to their other recruiting and interviewing responsibilities. But as Jewett says, "In some areas there's been very active alumni participation, and in other areas, there hasn't been...
...results do not reflect a successful minority recruitment program. Of the 124 black students in the Class of 1981, for example, Jewett says that most come from middle-class backgrounds. More importantly, as Jewett points out, "the applicant pool, even with respect to minority applicants, tends in background to come from middle-class communities...
...Young, staff coordinator between the students and the Admissions Office, goes along with no other complaint, he does agree that they are in a tenuous position with respect to the office. In other respects, however, his analysis differs from both that of the students and of Jewett. Young suggests that the performance of the students has been something less than confidence-inspiring. He says that the decision to restrict students' access to the office phones, for example, in part resulted from the high phone bill students ran up the previous year. Most of the calls, Young added, were placed...
...overall attitude in the office toward the student recruiters is quite negative. "Every time the key to the Xerox machine disappears, somebody says Those damn students."' This problem is only in part due to the students' performance, Young adds. Another important element is the current political climate with respect to minority rights. "These are very hostile times," he says. "People are seeing blacks under every...
Billie Jean King on the crowds at a tennis match: "They identify with the loser, which I don't like. It shows that the public has no self-respect. Sometimes I want to grab the mike and say, 'Heeey, no self-respect tonight, folks...