Word: files
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...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) will file complaints against the University's affirmative action policy with the federal Departments of Education and Labor within the next few months...
...expected sweetness and light. Ever since Labor's defeat in the 1979 elections, the party has been riven by struggles between its moderate parliamentary leadership and an increasingly radical rank and file. Last week's conference proved no exception. Headed by Tony Benn, 55, a former viscount who renounced his title in 1963 in order to remain in the House of Commons, the left arrived in Blackpool determined to wrest control of the party from its leaders. In particular, the militants aimed at three longtime objectives: 1) the right to draft the party's policy manifesto, which...
...Anderson canvassers will remind students to file for absentee ballots, and will enlist support for the "Run for Anderson," a fundraising "jogathon" this Sunday, Fortinsky added...
...Department of Labor began with compliance. In 1978 Berkeley administrators allowed federal investigators to see confidential peer-review documents regarding women. But several weeks later, when Labor Department agents asked to photocopy 466 of the documents and send them to Washington as part of a permanent affirmative-action file, Berkeley balked. Once they became Government documents, administrators reasoned, the Freedom of Information Act would allow third parties to gain access to them and the records would no longer be confidential. Berkeley did offer to take all of the documents to Washington where they could be inspected by officials...
...corrective methods being used by the Government seem increasingly dangerous. Most would agree with Dartmouth President John G. Kemeny, a staunch critic of past discrimination. Says Kemeny: "Academic institutions now live under a constant threat that any employee not hired or promoted (even for the best of reasons) can file a complaint that will bring a huge bureaucracy down on them. Even when the institution wins the case- and good institutions win most of the time-it involves an enormous expenditure of effort and large sums of money. There is no way of recovering the cost of these efforts even...