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...Harvard College Handbook requires that student groups have clear criteria for admission. This has led to the Hasty Pudding Club’s recent contortions to become “merit-based.” More seriously, it’s led to the notoriously haughty induction process at some of Harvard’s student organizations. At the Crimson, potential execs have to face an annual torture called “The Turkey Shoot.” After months of sucking up, the month-long process kicks off with position papers and the “schmooze...
...Concert Commission, which organized the Roots and Black Eyed Peas show. I didn’t do much, but I went to meetings and helped out on the day of the concert. To remain an official organization and keep receiving Harvard funding, the group, needing clear criteria for admittance, became “merit-based,” making applicants and supplicants alike fill out an questionnaire (I think would-be new members had to go to an interview too). It wasn’t a big deal, and the heads of the commission were friendly about it, assuring veterans...
...Hasty Pudding Cluba meritocracy? Threatened with the loss of their building, the Pudding needs to either become an official student group with clear criteria for admission or find another clubhouse...
Illingworth explains that in the past, it has not been clear what traits the club was searching for in new members. They need to make the admissions criteria more open, he says. Of course, the criteria must be within the College Handbooks guidelines for student groups, which specifiy that a group cannot discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, or physical disability. The guidelines make no mention of discrimination on the basis of social class...
...those decisions hold up, expect to see affirmative-action critics turn their attention to the newer, subtler affirmative-action policies. The same week the court issued the UGA ruling, the University of Florida announced, in response to an Office of Civil Rights directive, that it was changing its scholarship criteria to reduce the role of race. The move was unrelated to the UGA ruling, but it was a reminder that in the ongoing assault on affirmative action, these secondary forms of assistance--outreach programs, new admissions criteria, targeted scholarships--may be the next battleground...