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...would like to respond to Daniel H. Choi's [editorial, "Making Affirmative Action Work,"] in The Crimson. I believe that he has a lot to learn about people and their differences. I was deeply offended by his statements. I am sorry that there are people, especially minorities (as I imagine Daniel Choi to be), who still have such bigoted views of groups of people in today's society...
Another question I have for Choi is what does it matter to him how others perform? If the Admissions Board saw fit to allow entry of these students, why does he care what they do while they are here or if they finish? Furthermore, the notion that affirmative action allows only the deficient into this institution is wrong and unfair. It might be advantageous for Choi to evaluate how he came to be a student, historically. Discrimination in one's favor is just as ugly...
After reading both the lead story in the [April 29] Independent and Daniel H. Choi's [editorial, "Making Affirmative Action Work,"] in The Crimson, I would like to defend the former against some of the charges made by the latter. I think Choi errs in faulting the Indy for not offering admissions policy as a possible explanation of differences in GPA between ethnic groups...
Admissions policy is not, properly, a cause of differences in academic achievement. As Choi admits, it merely introduces differences to Harvard from society at large--differences which exist there for precisely the deeper reasons which the Indy suggests. Of these reasons, incidentally, I find the "expectations" argument the most plausible. While their families have doubtless had high expectations for all Harvard students, teachers and the mass media tend to convey more discouraging messages to Black and Latino students which are tough to fight past. And of a piece with these low expectations, I must add, are the very statistics which...
Also good are Doug Miller as the Duke and Yoseph Choi as the Grand Inquisitor. Miller has one of the strangest accents in a show full of pseudo-Brits but he prances about the stage in the best tradition of the "little man who sings the patter song," as Anna Russell put it. If he is less strong in the second act, his introductory song, "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," in the first is one of the best moments of the show. Blessedly, he understands the importance of enunciation. Choi plays the Inquisitor as a little more of a lech...