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Rudenstine will also be remembered for his part in the secret Allston land purchases that infuriated the surrounding communities. While Rudenstine finalized the deal that began during the administration of Derek C. Bok, he recently admitted that Harvard should have handled the issue differently. But Harvard’s relations with the surrounding communities have remained tense since the land-buying fiasco. The city of Cambridge has had a particularly antagonistic relationship with the University, with residents angry about development, payments in lieu of taxes and wage issues. And given the impending purchase of a major commercial office building...
...workshop, sponsored by the Instructional Computing Group (ICG) and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, is being held in the Science Center. It began on Monday and will come to an end today...
...When President Bok changed the ratio, he knew that the question of whether we were getting the strongest candidates possible under the current admissions system had to be addressed,” Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’71-73 says...
...Bok appointed a committee, chaired by Leverett Professor of Physics Karl Strauch, to look into the admissions policy. Opponents of an equal access admissions policy argued that Harvard alumni would not stand to see women admitted at the expense of men, and that donations to the College could drop significantly if women were admitted on an equal access basis...
...Strauch Committee, formed by President Bok to study admissions policies, recommended a merged, non-quota admissions policy in the spring of 1973, and it was formally adopted for the Class of 1980. As the Class of 1976 prepared to graduate, the admissions office proudly announced that the ratio of the matriculating students in the Class of 1980 was the lowest ever...