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Enter Davy Crockett...er...I mean, former President Gerald Ford, a Michigan alumnus who last week wrote an extraordinary opinion piece for the New York Times, defending the race-conscious admission policies that are at the core of the Michigan cases. Ford warned that if the courts forbid Michigan to use race, along with other factors that the school employs to select its student body--including economic standing, geographic origin, athletic and artistic achievement--they would turn back the clock to an era when minorities "were isolated and penalized for the color of their skin...or national ancestry." He recounted...
...School will miss a truly extraordinary teacher and alumnus. The world will miss a truly great human being," said Robert C. Clark, the school's dean, in a written statement...
...Greenspan] gave a very good speech on honesty and integrity and for [the counter-commencement speakers] to stand up and denounce his is not appropriate," said one 1964 alumnus who witnessed both events...
...Dean Knowles and President Rudenstine: They say that alums really hold sway over fair Harvard. And the Senior Gift people said that if I really wanted to effect change, I should donate to the University and write letters to the top brass. So I write you today, as an alumnus and modest donor, with the hope that these new-found designations hold you interest better than my role as a squawking newspaper writer...
...heads of the LGC are Edward M. Tate '99, Laura B. Zukerman '99, and Stephanie C. Field '99. Their connections to old money could be strong: Tate is a past president of the Porcellian club, and Field is a descendant of retail giant and Harvard alumnus Marshall Field...