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...find these remarks shocking and indefensible. It is inconceivable that so many applications could be appreciably inferior to those of white students, even by standard admissions criteria. Even so, those criteria themselves ignore the facts that (contrary to popular myth) racist college professors often unjustifiably give low grades and poor recommendations to black students, and that GRE tests are culturally biased against blacks...
...continues to live by the fishing pole theory. In 1971 he started a referral program for students turned down by Harvard who showed enough promise to be candidates for other schools. "The referral program is for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who, in many cases, are not informed about the criteria for admission to a place like Harvard. Many times students mistake large colleges' interviewing procedures and willingness to waive application fees as an early sign that they will be admitted. So they don't bother to apply to any back-up schools and after the rejections come they're left...
...acts to legitimize what students most fear, the corporate society. A formless and contentless University administration acting on principles of efficiency rather than excellence, reinforce student disillusionment with politics and social action. The Faculty, for the most part, is a model of detached, valueless celebrities subscribing tenaciously to the criteria of reputation. Economic calculations and salary substitute for institutional loyalty and indicate achievement. There is little significant discussion of personal philosophy giving meaning to life, or informing judgment. Instead only the rigors of description and evaluation of disciplinary views are discussed. The Faculty lives by the cult of the expert...
Recreation Director John Yovicsin says other criteria are considered: club size and age. Department heads do not adhere strictly to these criteria, however...
...Watson seems to have devised his own criteria for dispersement of funds, especially for Harvard sports clubs...