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Spence originally created the Verba Committeeafter the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) wrote areport criticizing FAS for "confusion" and"complacency" in its minority recruitmentpolicies. And while student activists havecriticized the Verba Report for being too weak,they have endorsed it as a minimal first steptoward a more comprehensive affirmative actionpolicy...
Representatives from activist organizations joined in the rally, including speakers from the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), the Minority Student Alliance (MSA) and other campus groups...
...Verba Committee was formed last spring after the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) criticized Harvard for "confusion" and "complacency" in its recruitment of minority scholars. Since then student activists from MSA, the Undergraduate Council, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship and the Women's Alliance have called on the faculty to step up recruitment efforts for minorities and women...
...relies again on individuals," says MSA member Edith I. Ramirez '89. "The fear is that if the individuals don't take a real serious interest in the issue, that very little will really be done...
...recommendations of the 1980 committee were never implemented, and many department chairs interviewed by MSA last spring did not even remember the report...