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Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73 stresses to this day that Harvard does not use an "affirmative action" admission system...
After the fervor of the late 1960s, the 1970s ushered in yet a new white backlash to the "affirmative action" policies. Harvard's policy, documented and celebrated as "ideal" by the Supreme Court's 1974 Bakke v. California case, was to maintain its admissions system, but shift away from the language of affirmative action altogether...
...regard affirmative action as a term to describe an employment practice," she writes in an e-mail message. "It does not connote very well our admission practices, which include regarding ethnicity and other aspects of background as `plus' factors, but which do not include a systematic formula of preference...
While the emphasis on "diversity" providedshelter from attacks against affirmative action inthe 1980s, those displeased with the end result ofHarvard's system have found new avenues forattack...
Harvard-Radcliffe RSI Action...