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...bringing his show to Harvard on Oct. 21 is an accomplished one, no doubt. He spent four years on Saturday Night Live (SNL) and gave a hilarious performance as Brian in the 1999 comedy Half Baked. But at $14 per ticket for Harvard students and $19 for regular admission??in addition to the $15,000 subsidy being put forward by the Undergraduate Council, bringing the total cost of the performance to $30,000—Breuer is a tough sell...
...right on time, The Game went on to its inevitable conclusion. And at this point, we can only guess who was responsible for the half-baked scheme, but it has Eli painted all over it. Clearly, the failed display—like a botched college application for admission??sprang from a feeble mind. And though Harvard has its eccentrics, Yale has made being pathologically desperate an art. Indeed, a centuries-old inferiority complex pervades the daily existence of the Yalie, a fascinating iteration of humanity that combines decently high SAT scores with an irrational penchant for mediocrity...
...academic colleagues and students apparently do not take him seriously, since—by his own admission??“I [Finkelstein] was thrown out of every [university] school in New York” and is “in exile in [DePaul University] in Chicago,” where he is “not happy” (Irish Times, July 1, 2003). He doesn’t understand why he has had such a “hard time.” Well maybe because he has leveled so many false charges against so many people...
These short cuts mean that every factor of admission??SAT, GPA, extracurricular leadership, sports, arts, hardship, and yes, minority status—must be assigned a point value. This system is by no means ideal, but it is the reality. To remove race from consideration because it is quantified—while leaving sports, arts and leadership with point values—would be absurd...
Indeed, Summers and Tribe were right to come out strongly in favor of the University of Michigan’s admissions practices. While Michigan’s undergraduate admission??s “point system” is not ideal, it is a satisfactory system for a school with too many applicants to effectively use a “plus” system like Harvard, and it achieves an important objective for all universities: a diverse student body...