Word: womens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts to increase the pool of minority and women scholars, Dean Spence earns an I for incomplete. While we should laud the university administration for successfully applying for the Mellon Foundation Grant, they have made no effort to use it. While this fund could have supported the term-time research of Black, Hispanic and Native American juniors and seniors this semester, FAS has yet to create an application for the grant. Meanwhile, the $350,000 languishes in FAS accounts...
Certainly now is not the time for complacency. According to Mr. Ronald Quincy, director of Harvard's Affirmative Action Office, compared with a pool of eight prestigious universities, Harvard ranks eighth in numbers of tenured women faculty, fifth in minority tenured faculty, sixth in nontenured women faculty, and sixth in nontenured minority faculty. Harvard's own Affirmative Action Plan for 1989 states that "On the basis of the university's formula to determine underutilization of women and minorities, FAS currently shows a shortfall of 17 senior and 11 (tenure) ladder female faculty...
...Underutilization means that the University employs fewer women or minorities in a particular job classification than would be reasonably expected given the proportion of these minorities in the pool of qualified candidates. Harvard's worsening faculty representation is inexcusable...
...could make the first progressive step by acting swiftly to create the administrative infrastructure to utilize the Mellon Grant. In addition, Dr. Mas-Collel should delineate his objectives as Dean in a written plan with goals and timetables. Lucy Haeran Koh '90 Chairperson Undergraduate Council Committee on Minority and Women Faculty Recruitment
...scapegoat. Xenophobia and racism are also used to dehumanize, and thus to scapegoat the enemy. Misogyny, with its unmitigated assertion of superiority and justification of violence, is widespread--witness the incidence of rape as an act of war, the harassment of servicewomen within the forces, and the exclusion of women from combat positions that give access to higher rank and higher pay. Classism is blatant in the rank system and in the economic backgrounds of people who fill those ranks. Homophobia is only one example of oppressive forces that are at work in the military. Even if the exclusionary policy...