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Within hours of the initial complaint--filed by Bernheim on behalf of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), a nationwide women's group--more than 80 K-School alumni released a letter supporting WEAL. The petition labeled the school's dearth of tenured women or minorities "shocking." Implicit was their assumption that Harvard's public policy school should lead--not la in--the national campaign for genuine affirmative action...
Over the next two months, increasing numbers of K-School students joined the chorus, demanding sweeping policy changes. They won support from many faculty--as well as membership on the school's three admissions committees. And last month, WEAL brought its complaints before the Senate's Labor and Human Resources committee is Washington, receiving sympathetic responses from chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass...
...WEAL sources continued to maintain the unreleased report is inaccurate and that not all of the five candidates were given tempting offers by the school--and said DOL's preliminary findings, which Labor sources say are due in about a month but which will not be made public, will bear out their charges...
...first time, WEAL's national leadership joined the fray, with national president Carol B. Grossman calling the K-School "hard-pressed" to back up its case and saying she expects DOL to support WEAL's charges...
...School students also expressed their "concern" over the school's affirmative action record last week, though they did not explicitly support the WEAL complaint. In a half-page letter to K-School Dean Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, the governing board of the school's student association asked for a more active role in reviewing admissions...