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...seasoned veteran of the Quad, knows. "Well, that's an interesting question," says Boyle. "What most people don't know is that the Q-RAC used to be called the QRALC: Quality Recreation at Low cost. It's kind of like ZEBCO, the fishing pole maker, you know, the Zero Error Bomb Corporation. The Q-RAC used to make bombs in World War II." Edified, I probe deeper...
Even more importantly, we hope that the editors will take precautions against the spirit of smallmindedness that the editorial embodies and perpetuates. Perhaps in the future, they will learn that instead of quibbling over whether there are zero or one African-American female professors at Harvard, the question we should really be asking is whether one American female professor is anywhere near enough. Jean Tom '96 co-chair, Minority Student Alliance
Second, the data in the flyer was painstakingly researched and cited; the official number of zero tenured Black women faculty was taken from the latest Affirmative Action Plan, page 41. Students were only the transmitters of University published data. Perhaps it is Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's status as a Professor of African American Religious History at the Divinity School that precludes the FAS from counting her in its report...
Although I don't know the reasons why she's left our university, I feel a bit dismayed. To cut to the chase, niggling over whether the number of African-American tenured women faculty is zero or one misses the point; the point is, it isn't much and the "old boys network" Ms. Wilde reported on last year is still part of the processes and institutions of senior faculty hiring...
...congratulating our exemplary Afro-Am department, I hope I haven't understand the concerns of many students. Namely, there are zero Mexican-American or Puerto Rican-American senior faculty (a critical distinction to make here, as well as for Asian-American tenured professors, is that between ethnic American scholars and elite foreign scholars), zero Native American senior faculty and a gaping hole in our curriculum with regard to permanent ethnic studies courses...