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Earlier, Rudenstine had been successful in helping shoot down the Riggs amendment to the Act that would have denied government money to any schools that considered race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin as factors in the college admissions process.
And those efforts paid off. Last spring an amendment to the bill that would have ended affirmative action in higher education was defeated after an intense lobbying effort by Harvard and higher-education advocacy groups. Last week, partly in response to Harvard's prodding, Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56...
"Throughout the process [of passing the bill] there had been any number of things popping up which would have made the bill completely unacceptable," he said. One of these additions was the anti-affirmative action amendment that Rudenstine helped defeat.
Harvard has been a major part of this counter-attack. Last year, President Neil L. Rudenstine played a critical role in defeating the anti-affirmative action Riggs Amendment on Capitol Hill.