Word: whats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"It depends on what you mean by AffirmativeAction," said Patterson. "If it means quotas, thenI share Mansfield's disdain. But AffirmativeAction...means predispositions and long-run goalswe can strive for."
"What constitutes scholarship has changed,"said Susan R. Suleiman, professor of romance andcomparative literatures and a key proponent of theestablishment of the Women's Studiesconcentration. She added that hirers should beopen-minded because many women and minoritycandidates are young and have been taughtdifferently.
"I don't think there is enough interaction between Harvard students and Cambridge Rindge and Latin students," he says. "You walk past them in the Yard. It's like they have blinders on. It's as if Harvard doesn't care about them, and they don't care what happens...
"I like to give [high school students] a feel for what college is like," says Marks, who is in his second year as a volunteer for the program. "I would tell them what life is like at college."
The problem is what all these volunteers can realistically expect to achieve.