{"id":2023,"date":"1988-09-27T19:29:13","date_gmt":"1988-09-27T19:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2018-10-21T19:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T19:30:06","slug":"first-finalist-for-affirmative-action-officer-presented-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1988\/09\/27\/first-finalist-for-affirmative-action-officer-presented-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"First finalist for affirmative action officer presented to students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">September 27, 1988<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First finalist for affirmative action officer presented to students<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Herbert Pitts, the first of three finalists for affirmative action officer, met with students at an open forum in Neilson Browsing Room. The forum was held to give students a chance to weigh in on Pitts as a candidate; comments sheets were passed around and although a member of the search committee said that the sheets were \u201cnot ballots,\u201d she did note that the final decision would be made \u201ctaking community response into consideration.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the forum can be found here (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1988.09.29.-Finalist-Presented-to-Students-1.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1988.09.29.-Finalist-Presented-to-Students-4-e1538925097942.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 4<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 21, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 27, 1988 First finalist for affirmative action officer presented to students Herbert Pitts, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[90,42],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","tag-90","tag-affirmative-action","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}