Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resigned in September as Coop controller, the following month filed a $100,000 lawsuit against the Coop, alleging "breach of contract." The case is still pending in Suffolk County Superior Court. A former accounts payable manager, John Roberts, charged in November that he resigned due to intense and unfair pressure applied on him by Howard W. Davis, general manager of the Coop. The National Labor Relations Board began an investigation of the Coop last fall after union organizers complained they were being "harassed" by Coop security guards. A group of local Chicano students led by Carlos M. Alcala, a third...
...Eleanor Glueck--still a lecturer--died last year, 14 women and 29 minority group members held tenure. The University has spent between $50,000 and $250,000 in the past two years drawing up three unsuccessful affirmative action plans and one that is now pending revision. Few examples of unfair treatment of women or minority group members are as blatant as that of the Gluecks. Harvard claimed in 1940, as it does today, that the University hires only the "best person in the world" to fill each faculty position. If blacks or women did not hold high positions, it must...
Unlike Eleanor Glueck, the women now employed by the University are no longer passively accepting unfair treatment. Women at Harvard filed at least two charges of sex discrimination with HEW this year: Franziska Hosken claimed she was unfairly denied consideration for a position at the Graduate School of Design, and a group of women law school students submitted a long list of charges including claims of discriminatory admissions and financial aid policies...
DESPITE BULLITT'S noble expectations, the grad student thesis reader does feel this pressure, although it is unlikely that any grades were changed because of direct pressure from the other readers. Still, Graduate students say it is unfair to expect them to pretend that senior Faculty members do not affect how they read a thesis...
...They probably wanted to protect their own performance," Lewitt explained. "We grade on a curve, and prior knowledge would be an unfair advantage...