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STUDENT and faculty protests for better minority recruitment have spread like wildfire at campuses across the country this spring. Duke University students and faculty were able to change minority recruitment policy to require that each of the university's more than 50 departments hire at least one additional black faculty member by 1993. If the departments fail, they must show why they failed and undergo an outside review of their recruiting procedures...
Besides, these administrators say, the Division I-AA playoff format--a grueling, four-game tournament spread out over five weeks--would keep players on the playing fields and away from the classrooms...
...Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, is fighting the pests. The U.S., Western Europe and the Soviet Union have donated a total of $30 million for pesticides and field operations, but F.A.O. officials say $150 million more is needed. "If the plague gets out of control, it will spread to East Africa and the Near East," warns an F.A.O. official. "It could be a disaster...
During her speech, Ruddick said the University intimidates staff members by asking their immediate supervisors to spread an anti-union message. She also said the administration misrepresents the facts about unions to its employees. As an example, Ruddick said some long-standing employees had been told they would lose their senior status under a union contract...
...movement to own and carry guns is spread fairly evenly among age groups, across professions and around the country. "These are young women, older women; many are professional, but some are housewives," says Barbara Mueller, vice president of the Illinois State Rifle Association. "They don't have a cigarette dangling from the corner of their mouth, and they're not closet commandos." Though more women are appearing at shooting ranges and gun clubs, the sporting aspect is not really the issue. The vast majority who are buying guns -- about 75%, by most estimates -- are doing so to protect their homes...