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...scheme raises the simple question of where to stop. Having set such a precedent, one is compelled to weigh the legitimacy of any other claimant groups that may arrive on the scene. When other groups (final clubs, athletic teams, commuters, Hungarian-Americans, short people) seek similar status, what criteria do we employ in selecting among them...
Dukakis told a meeting of the Cambridge Civic Association that 95 per cent of the state's social welfare problems are in its older cities, and said that aid based on objective need criteria would help solve these problems...
Additionally, last year's controversy over the criteria for selecting a new athletic director (a controversy which pitted the interests of varsity athletes against the broader desires of the Harvard athletic community), provided an ironic contrast to the Harvard ideal of "athletics...
...creative alternative would be to restructure this position by dramatically altering both the selection criteria for, and the responsibilities of, the post. The applicant selected should be a recent Harvard graduate (within the last three years) who would receive a four-year, non-renewable contract. At the end of his four-year term, after having followed a class through Harvard, the associate director's position would again be opened to a more recent Harvard graduate...
...conclusion, I believe the authors of "Recruitment" are simply asking that Harvard's admissions office be doing what any competent admissions office should do: developing accurate, unbiased, truly rigorous admissions criteria. I do not believe minority students are asking for preferential treatment or favors--most of the minority students I have met here are too qualified to lack a sense of entitlement. It is unfortunate that the misplaced anger and incautious prose on the part of the authors of "Recruitment" is enough to leave them with nothing but their sense of entitlement: no allies in the admissions office; no sympathetic...