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...Crimson staff would like to use the Harvard admissions office as a means by which to correct the wrongs of society--discrimination against minority groups and socio-economic disparities--then perhaps Harvard should adopt a more comprehensive policy of affirmative action admissions...
...College could seek to proportionately represent those afflicted with mental handicaps, non-existent work ethics and intellectual apathy. Until the admissions office decides to adopt such a policy, I hope, as should the Crimson, that the Harvard student body remains an aristocracy which represents the best and most able applicants...
...Overseers asked Tutu to speak about South Africa. He did, and said afterwords that Harvard should adopt a new divestment plan. Under his plan, Harvard would pledge to sell off its remaining stock unless South Africa followed up on its early reform gestures and substantially dismantled the apartheid system...
...move to repeal represents a major setback to supporters of the Gay Rights Act, who lobbied for 17 years to force the state to adopt legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
Many Americans fear that national testing will lead to a national curriculum, inviting education by remote control from Washington and causing schools to turn out carbon-copy students. With its long history of local autonomy, the U.S. is unlikely ever to adopt such a system formally. Still, even traditionalists concede that the U.S. has a de facto common curriculum, driven largely by widely used standardized exams and the homogenized fare dished up by textbook publishers...