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...large measure, Bollinger continued to attract attention because of the idiosyncrasies of his current job. University of Michigan regents and other officials proved far more voluble than those close to Summers and Fineberg...
...tell, Arafat has no strategy, he has only tactics. He's hoping that Sharon will make a stupid mistake, kill 200 Palestinians and attract world condemnation. But Sharon is aware of that, and he's not going to give Arafat the pleasure. But having gotten the wider Arab and Muslim world involved in the conflict since late last year, Arafat has left himself very little room to maneuver on the key issues. He's stuck...
Second, the claim of Stephen Staples, Harvard's assistant director of marketing and promotions, that, "our policy helps us attract people," is unfounded and likely untrue. Anyone who has taken Ec 10 will tell you that people respond to incentives. Corporate sponsorship attracts people through promotions and prizes. Allowing a fan to shoot a hockey puck for prizes not only raises attendance but team spirit as well. And contrary to Staples' opinion, I don't feel that people leave a Celtics game bothered by the advertisements...
Imagine the science faculty Harvard could attract by offering them almost unlimited lab space on another planet. Imagine the draw on the Crimson Key tours. And--I'm amazed Rudenstine didn't think of this--imagine the untapped fund-raising potential of offering donors their own colonies or even a trip to Mars themselves. Plus, it's a good place to send the remaining vestiges of Radcliffe, since Harvard seems so eager to get rid of them...
...intended effect of the change is to attract more minority students. Black and Latino enrollment at U.C. dipped measurably in the wake of California's 1996 ban on the use of affirmative action in admissions. The SATs are a major reason: last year the mean score for blacks on the SAT was 198 points lower than that for whites. Recently, when Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania and Bates College in Maine stopped requiring the SAT, minority applications doubled...