Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report acknowledges that "outside pressure" may have been initially responsible for Harvard's internal monitoring of its hiring practices. And with the persistence of selfstyled meritocrats on the Faculty, it is by no means obvious that an unpressured Harvard would continue to strive for truly color-blind and sex-blind hiring practices...
Begin and other right-wing Israeli leaders seem willing to pay that price. Their fears a of maniacal Palestinian state blind them to the political instability and moral disarray that 15 years of occupation have brought to Israel. Perhaps they prefer Israel's steady transformation into a paranoid garrison state, at peace with neither its neighbors nor itself. Or perhaps they really believe that the Palestine's problem can be managed by an "autonomy" scheme worked out with Egypt...
...from using aid as a criterion to settle hard cases. We can only reiterate our hope that Harvard has yet to reach this crisis point. The College's recent allocation of an additional $100,000 in Faculty funds allocated to the admissions and financial aid budget to maintain aid-blind admissions offer much encouragement...
...such internal adjustments will be not be enough; word of such steps cannot be counted upon to percolate through to the students and parents who need most to be reassured of Harvard's accessibility. The Admissions Office must aggressively publicize its aid-blind policy--by recruiting harder, by printing better leaflets, and by telling students more loudly that they can depend on Harvard's support...
Ulin's is an extreme example of intramural ailments, but there are more Rajeev Bhatla, a South House senior, struggled for a loose ball and snapped his tibia in an early October House soccer game against Quincy. Dan Henshaw of Lowell tore knee ligaments when he was blind-sided away from the ball in a House football game. Kirkland House's Steve Larkin separated his shoulder in House basketball when, running down court at full tilt, someone stuck out a clumsy foot and upended...