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However, he revealed that the department found "meager" the K-School's advertising in minority and women's interest media--a criterion the Woman's Equity Action League (WEAL) used when it kicked off the K-School controversy with its complaint last October...
...WEAL and the students repeatedly stressed that the school boasted no women or minorities among its 22 tenured professors last term. They noted that among junior faculty--associate and assistant professors--it sported but one female assistant professor (on leave this term) and no minorities. They pointed out that this year's graduating class from the school's Master of Public Policy (MPP) program, its premier graduate school program, features two minorities among its 60 students...
...WEAL cited figures showing that women compose 19.8 per cent of the approximately 500 students in the school, a proportion that pales in comparison to the 30.6 per cent of the University of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson School, the 38 per cent of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and the 52.3 per cent of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute. WEAL charged that these startling statistics--coupled with its failure to contact minority or women's groups and to expand its employment advertising to minority and women's lackadaisical search for minority women scholars. In short...
...FIREWORKS, the very people at whom the charges were aimed--school administrators--haven't taken WEAL or the students seriously. Realizing the Department of Labor won't fine the school in gross violation of flaccid affirmative action laws, they have skirted the issue, dishing out occasional tidbits of reform to pacify student activists and federal investigators without really changing anything. They have sought refuge under charges that WEAL's statistics are inaccurate--ignoring that even the school's slightly amended figures give it a shamefully small minority and woman population. They have hidden behind claims that they made "serious offers...
...surprising that WEAL sources now fear Harvard will "slip through" departmental scrutiny. The battle for true affirmative action at the K-school will not be won through the Department of Labor, WEAL and the students increasingly recognize, and they vow to continue pressuring the school for more than token gestures in the "post-complaint" era. It will be a hard fight...