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...Derek C. Bok, a vocal supporter of affirmative action who served as Harvard’s president during the Bakke case, said in an interview last week that the University’s brief would likely play an important role in the Michigan cases...
...Harvard brief also cites data from a 1998 book defending affirmative action in college admissions—The Shape of the River, authored by Bok and former Princeton President William G. Bowen—to prove what they consider the success of the Bakke decision...
...addition to his own advocacy for affirmative action, Bok said that it was Harvard that convinced the University of California to allow Harvard Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox to argue the Bakke case in front of the court...
...went to college with Sandra Day O’Connor, but we didn’t talk too much about preferential admissions,” Bok said...
...It’s an anathema to a place like Harvard. If Harvard said, ‘you have to finish in the top quarter of a percent of your high school class,’ imagine the student body,” Bok said. “It would be a much less interesting class than the one we have...