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Nearly two years after a surge of student activism prompted an internal review of hiring practices, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this fall will finally get down to the nuts and bolts of improving its affirmative action efforts...
...council brought the affirmative action effort more in line with the current administrative setup of FAS, and its revisions left student activists predicting more frustration in the future about the University's inability to diversify its faculty...
...issue erupted in February when a gay student charged he was physically and verbally assaulted after a Mather House dance because of his sexual orientation. The incident intensified when gay students staged a "kiss-in" protest at the Mather dining hall. Later there were questions about the original attack, but meanwhile the house, and the community at large, had split into camps which labeled each other as homophobic on the one hand and overly confrontational and "improper" on the other...
EVEN more central to campus life this year was the intense and, at times, bitter struggle to boost minority and women faculty hiring. Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition to this end this spring, and it was the Minority Student Alliance which issued the stinging critique that prodded the Faculty of Arts and Sciences into action last year...
Action must follow acknowledgement, student activists remind us, but the faculty has yet to realize...