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...suffered its own public scandals of late. When the young black reporter Jayson Blair was fired last year from the Times for fraud and plagiarism, it led not only to the resignation of the paper’s two top editors, but to outside accusations that Blair was affirmative action??€™s cautionary tale...
...record 15,855 students applied regular decision. Only 3,887 applied early—down from 7,614 last year—after the College reverted to its pre-1999 ‘Single Choice Early Action??€™ policy this fall...
...several occasions Gates has said that he firmly supports affirmative action??€”indeed he benefited greatly from it. He was one of 96 black men and women, the largest such group at the time, to enroll at Yale University in September 1969 as part of what would become known as the affirmative action generation...
...last time the two powerhouses faced off—excluding exhibition action??€”Dartmouth ended the Crimson’s 27-game winning streak in the ECAC finals with a decisive 7-2 victory. It was the fourth time in the past five seasons that the Big Green stopped a Harvard drive for a post-season trophy in its tracks...
...IOP’s mission is to be evaluated, I would not waste time writing prohibitions against activity that is unlikely to happen again. If a future IOP student group wants to consider controversial social action??€”for instance, siding with workers at a repressive sweatshop making Harvard sweatshirts—it should be considered on a case-by-case basis. Now that the Miami episode is over, the need is to stand up for the students, not retroactively prohibit what they weren’t planning to do anyway...