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Fundamentally, race relations on this campus have boiled down to questions of communication and trust. Hernandez-Gravelle described minorities at Harvard as burdened with a "sense of invisibility and lack of acknowledged presence and voice." Visions '89 is an important step to help counter this invisibility...
...subject to "strict scrutiny." This means that public-sector affirmative-action programs are valid only if they serve the "compelling state interest" of redressing "identified discrimination." Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a bitter dissent joined by Justices William Brennan and Harry Blackmun, called the decision "a deliberate and giant step backward in this court's affirmative-action jurisprudence...
...number of varsity programs exploded, so did the number of men coaching those programs. In addition, the consolidation of men's and women's athletic departments--a step schools have taken to easily accommodate the new requirements--frequently resulted in a male administrator at the top of the new hierarchy...
Since then, the Undergraduate Council, the Women's Alliance, Phillips Brooks House and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship have jumped on the bandwagon, calling on FAS to step up its recruitment efforts. This fall, over 2000 students signed an Undergraduate Council-sponsored petition asking Harvard to reconsider its policies...
HUCTW and the University have also created a four-member joint committee to address all worker complaints while the contract negotiations take place. For the union, the grievance board is a first step in its plans to give workers more control over their jobs by decentralizing Harvard decision making...