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There was more common ground between us in the symposium on Affirmative Action reported upon in Monday's Crimson than the story suggests. Without taking issue with any details in the story, we wish to emphasize this common ground: we both agree that there has been unacceptable discrimination in universities in the past, and that there is a heritage left by this discrimination that must be overcome. We both agree with those parts of affirmative action that deal with advertising nondiscrimination, seeking out applicants of previously excluded groups, eliminating hiring practices that have the effect of excluding minorities and women...
...interesting, and perhaps instructive, that the Harvard Hillel Symposium on Affirmative Action panel was composed of four men. This, despite the fact that the University's Affirmative Action Officer (who is presumably quite knowledgeable on the subject) is a woman...
...nation's most significant political questions. Last week members of Congress assembled to debate the question themselves at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. Their host was Time Inc. which celebrated the 50th anniversary of TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine with a dinner honoring Congress and a symposium on "The Role of Congress." Similar regional discussions had been sponsored earlier in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, bringing together Senate leaders and congressional scholars (TIME cover...
...symposium will be held in Emerson Hall 105 Sunday...
Explaining his new discovery at a symposium on artificial life, Dr. Robert P. Geyer describes the synthetic rats blood as a "milky solution of highly inert flurocarbons and industrial emulsifiers--in fact, not unlike Derek Bok." In a protracted game of double or nothing with Kingman Brewster at the New York Yale Club, Harvard Treasurer George F. Bennett Jr. loses the University's endowment. Posing as a tub resting on its own betters, Bennett is choose to be a contestant on Monty Hall's Let's Make a Deal, where he swaps the Harvard Classes of 77-80 for what...