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"There has always been a question of whether it was a fair provision, since people who were deeply engaged in activities were hit harder than students who were not active," said Henry C. Moses, the dean of first-year students.
"What constitutes scholarship has changed,"said Susan R. Suleiman, professor of romance andcomparative literatures and a key proponent of theestablishment of the Women's Studiesconcentration. She added that hirers should beopen-minded because many women and minoritycandidates are young and have been taughtdifferently.
Neither Harvard nor the league has changed its position this year, said Harvard Associate Athletic Director Patricia Miller. "Basically, this is entirely outside the league," Miller said. "There's been nothing generated internally. There's no Ivy sanction. It's all been externally driven."
"I believe that Harvard is the leader in American higher education today, as it has been for a century," Spence wrote, in uncharacteristically sweeping language. "If we are imaginative and aggressive, take carefully calculated risks, and are properly financed we will remain so."
"But our current financial condition is not healthy enough to sustain Harvard College as the symbol of academic excellence it has been in the past," Spence continued. "Our only feasible source of significant new income to meet this challenge is fundraising."