Word: williamsons
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Other graduates focused their activism at Harvard on changing the University. Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68, solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor, was in the student government and served as the first chair of an ad hoc committee of Black students formed in response to the King assassination which took steps to establish Afro-American studies...
...Harvard hadn't been aggressive about making the country less racist," Williamson says. "My role was to help things get started in a way that was both progressive and conciliatory...
...Williamson says the committee was part of an effort to make Harvard more accessible to minorities. He also says he and other students urged the admissions office to recruit more heavily from different kinds of schools...
...said, 'you don't understand how remote Harvard seems to a Black student at an inner city high school,'" Williamson says...
...Cavaliers appeared to have scored first when senior Heather Goehirger broke through the Crimson defense and slipped one past Williamson. Officials called the goal back, however, because Goehinger stepped into Harvard's crease before shooting...