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...would like to commend the Crimson staff for their editorial "Balance the Board" (Opinion, Feb. 17) and respond to the corresponding dissent...
...first sentence of your editorial, which states that the University of California Board of Regents "phased out affirmative action in 1997 after the passing of Proposition 209," is factually incorrect. The Regents voted to end affirmative action in 1995, two years before the passage of Prop. 209 and began to phase out affirmative action in the graduate schools the following year...
...indeed unfair. Our society is still dominated by racism and classism, thus tilting the ledger in favor of those at the top--often towards white males. During the affirmative action era in California, it was far from "absurd" that race played a significant role in admissions. Instead, the Board of Regents was trying to create campuses which represented the diversity of California while recognizing the educational disadvantages inherent in a poor socio-economic background...
...leader, Amanda Channing, for "not just ethnic diversity, but diversity of thought," cited approvingly by your editorial, it seems to me somewhat ironic and disingenuous. I applaud the statement itself--it's what conservatives have been saying for decades; but I suspect what Ms. Channing really wants is a Board of Regents characterized not by diversity of thought, but by uniformity of thought in agreement with...
...Harvard's apparent unwillingness to remove these students permanently from the rolls. Neither attacker has lost his official standing as a Harvard student. If attending Harvard is a privilege--and we think it is--these two men should have lost that privilege as soon as the Ad Board decided the rapes had occurred...