Word: ad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states that once applications are in, once socio-economic factors have done their work and it's Harvard's turn, the process is a meritocracy. The Admissions Office has basked up this statement. The only way to test it is to look at the applicant group as a whole, ad to compare those who came to those who didn...
...endorse the SDS position, the sit-in could only be interpreted as an attempt to impose by pressure what was not obtainable by free and rational discussion. This is a form of moral absolutism that amounts to intolerable political tryanny. Majority rule has its flaws, and I have heard ad nauseam the argument that moral issues cannot be settled by majority decisions. But what was at stake was public policy--which entails a judgment on different moral stands and a consideration of multiple values; this cannot be settled by minority rule...
...procedural defects are enough in themselves to make severe punishment inadvisable. It's no secret that the case-by-case routine of the board is better suited to benevolent chiding of academic sluggards and habitual Coop thieves than to harshly punishing large groups of political demonstrators. Last Spring the Ad Board considered revising its procedures--especially for obstructive demonstrations--but ended up doing nothing...
...collection of bursar's cards, a half-hour in which anyone could wander in and out. When members of the board did collect the cards, they apparently missed a good number of those present. A teaching fellow at the scene collected 27 cards after University officers left, but the ad board has refused to accept them...
With the identification process this haphazard, it would be outrageous for the ad board to expel the selected group they say they saw. Even students who have no sympathy with the protest would be disgusted by this kind of divide-and-conquer tactic...