Word: admit
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Harvard should not have prolonged Grant's punishment by revoking her admission. In doing so, Harvard sent a dangerous message that child offenders can never be truly forgiven for their crimes, and it lost the opportunity to admit a student who likely would have excelled here...
There are of course the usual disclaimers: "our goal is to admit good talented people. We have no quotas of any kind--gender, race, ethnicity, field of study, geographic locale, extracurricular activities. We want to bring together individuals who will make up an exciting and diverse class..." trumpets the Harvard-Radcliffe application...
...would be as pleased if, now that those principles have been reaffirmed, Harvard were to re-obligate itself to this particular student whom it once admitted because she has rebuilt her life in exemplary fashion and, for her good and for the good of this community, re-admit Gina Grant...
According to a survey by Cynara Stites, a clinical social worker at the University of Connecticut, professors themselves admit the potential for exploitation in such romances: 9 out of 10 agreed that a student who breaks up with a professor risks "unfair reprisals." More than half the male faculty members agreed that a professor who sleeps with a student he supervises is taking advantage of her. "There's a real risk of her losing her entire academic career," explains Stites. "It undermines her self-confidence. She doesn't know whether [her success is] based on her lover or based...
Even staunch defenders of free speech admit that cyberspace has red-light districts unsuitable for young Elroy Jetson. And there's no bouncer to keep out minors. Sexual content is scattered throughout Usenet, the collection of more than 5,000 special-interest public forums on the Internet, and accessible as well to users of large commercial providers such as America Online. One of the best-read sections of Usenet is alt.sex, a newsgroup so popular it has spawned more than 60 offshoots, from alt.sex.bestiality.barney to alt.sex.woody-allen. Half a dozen other Usenet groups also store free, X-rated images that...