Word: verba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Verba, we give the magical power...
...things currently stand, however, none of those steps will be taken. The Faculty Council removed or watered down most of the recommendations of the Verba Committee report on affirmative action. And while Andreu MasColell, the new assistant dean of affirmative action, seems well-intentioned, there is probably little he can do on his own to make the departments hire more women and minorities...
...enough to direct these protests at individual professors, since only the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as a policy-making body can institute the structural changes necessary to guarantee a more diverse faculty. The Verba Report's original recommendations, especially the call for independent affirmative action faculty representatives in each department, should be revived by students. With specific demands, student protest can force specific remedies...
Five of the seven professors, many of them citing the Verba report as a clear mandate for change in minority and women hiring, said they backed Affirmative Action because it puts minorities on a more equal plane in faculty searches. But two panelists said such plans are demeaning and harmful to the University...
...Syria were still deemed "peace-loving." Moreover, through this process of UN moral inversion, Israel and South Africa could now "legitimately" be equated in the meetings of the Palestine National Coucil. Fourteen years later, Israel- South Africa "academic" forums appear at Harvard and earn the defense of Professor Sidney Verba. This disquieting and largely ignored process can only call into question our own commitment to the truth...