Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Zurier said Smith called him Monday night and tried to make a settlement. Zurier, Royce and a group of Winthrop House students who have filed a similar class action suit against HDNS then offered Smith their terms for a settlement, but he turned them down, Zurier said...
Jeffrey B. Matthews '81, who filed the class action suit for the Winthrop students with Daniel C. Esty '81, said yesterday, "I'm not surprised at the outcome because HDNS has no case...
Concrete examples of discrimination in university tenuring practices and policies clearly exist. In 1978, Brown University agreed, when forced by a class action suit brought by Professor Louise Lamphere, to cease its discriminating against women in hiring, promotion and tenure. Lamphere won a tenured post at Brown. However, controversy still rages at Brown over the case of Professor Ann Seidman. Seidman, who has published ten books and 35 articles, was ranked third on a list for a new chair after two men. When they declined, the Sociology Department reversed itself and withdrew her nomination. The Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee, established...
...solely on need, many prospective athletes receive more attractive financial packages from other schools and turn Harvard down. "Recruiting in the Ivy League is the toughest job in the world," Restic says. "It's painful to lose people who really want to come here because of the middle-class squeeze or other monetary considerations--we're losing well qualified applicants. With a scholarship, we could compete with anyone," he adds...
...little diamonds could only have been created under extraordinarily high pressures. Such conditions deep within the earth produce diamonds, which are brought to the surface in eruptions of molten magma through kimberlite, or volcanic, pipes. But extreme pressures also occur during high-velocity collisions between celestial objects; uralites, a class of meteorites that presumably have been involved in such deep-space impacts, contain such tiny diamonds. Since no volcanic pipes have been identified in the Tunguska area, Sobotovich concluded that the Siberian diamonds were formed far from the earth...