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Calling last year’s low number of tenure offers to women “a matter of some emergency,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby evidently confuses low percentages of women hired or tenured with evidence of discrimination (News, “FAS Diversity Drives Debate,” Oct. 20). The latter, not the former, is an “emergency” necessitating the kind of affirmative action program Kirby touts...
...William Granara, professor of the practice of Arabic, said he wouldn’t start a petition—“only for the logistical reason that I’m not technologically advanced”—but added that he would support a divestment effort...
...Dukakis, was doing well in the polls. That fall, however, pro-Bush forces deftly used wedge issues--particularly crime and the specter of encroaching liberalism--to cleave white working-class voters from the Democratic Party. The nastiest and most effective '88 political ad featured the hardened visage of convict William Horton, a murderer who had fled Massachusetts during a prison furlough and then stabbed a man and raped his fianc. Republicans said Dukakis had turned his state's prison gates into "a revolving door." Dukakis pointed out that he had actually ended the furlough program, but his protest was late...
Calling last year’s low number of tenure offers to women “a matter of some emergency,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby evidently confuses low percentages of women hired or tenured with evidence of discrimination (News, “FAS Diversity Drives Debate,” Oct. 20). The latter, not the former, is an “emergency” necessitating the kind of affirmative action program Kirby touts...
...We’ve got a great captain and he’s just spectacular in keeping us motivated,” senior William Ulrich says, frankly. “He’s reminding us that people aren’t perceiving us as threat this year and urging us to prove them wrong. Harry hasn’t had to say anything—Aaron’s just spectacular at that...