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...first time, the Harvard football squad has a black captain. However, is this a sign of progressive, unbiased thinking on the part of those associated with the football program or will it be used as just another token front for what may actually be a bastion of racism? Does the election of a black football captain make a mockery of the impressions of Harvard football gained by brothers like Robert Harper...
...services, Cohen receives only a "token payment" (his NBC salary runs to four figures a week). He explains: "U.S.C. really can't afford me." But as a former student he has other rewards: "There's a rather delicious, perverse thrill to going back there now in such a position of authority...
...appreciation of the key and as a token of the Vogts' interest in the House, Catherine Vogt presented a check of an undisclosed amount to Stephen H. Dart '75, chairman of the Kirkland House Committee, to help fund a proposed student lounge...
Many blacks at Harvard feel they have little power and hold only token positions; some even believe that racism is prevalent. Others think that the recruitment of blacks in the late sixties was a "stop-gap" effort to appease student demands, and consequently feel these hastily appointed officials may be less competent than their peers. And some blacks also find that too much is expected of them by superiors, colleagues and students...
...Token Reform. Did the change happen? Not at all, according to a comprehensive survey being released this week by Boston University's Center for Criminal Justice. The five-volume report, product of an 18-month study of nine sample cities, concludes: "Compliance has generally been token in nature," reform "has been chaotic and uneven at best," and the assurance of legal representation remains "an empty right for many defendants...