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Given the space constrictions October 24, the summary nature of the report was understandable. Nonetheless, it seemed to me that the story lacked essential background that your readers unfamiliar with South Africa would need for a fuller understanding of the investment problem...
...study--which looked in detail at seven departments--indicates that the problem for minorities comes not at the end of the process, when departments make their choices, but at the beginning, when would-be minority applicants make theirs. "The results for minorities were patently clear," the report concludes. "It was rare, very rare, for a minority person to be found even on the long list of junior faculty search committees." In fact, in the 84 searches conducted by the seven departments under study, only 39 out of more than 10,000 applicants on the long lists were minorities, the report...
What, then, did Whitla and company see as the reason for the absence of minorities on search lists? In a word, demographics--the number of qualified minority candidates is very small because few minorities choose academic careers. In essence, the problem lies much deeper than Harvard's minority Faculty statistics indicate; it is a problem, the report implies, that affects higher education in general...
Part of the problem stemmed from the nature of Martin's postion. As cherrypicker, the forward who says upfield despite the situation--she can't get too involved in a game played largely at midfield...
...canon, who did not sign the Covenant and wears no olive branch ("I'm not a hypocrite," he said), started the Boston Urban Coalition with other Episcopalians who wish to approach the issues of the Covenant from a different perspective. "You could say that on one level, the problem in the city is between Black folks and Catholics," he said. "But to think that they're the only ones who have a stake in the city--that's ludicrous." Rodman believes the Covenant organizers have erred in limiting the concept to the city of Boston, but said they have done...