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Powell is not the first Commencement speaker whose views members of the Harvard community find objectionable. What about when Fidel Castro spoke at Commencement in the early '60s? While the ban is offensive to many, "offensiveness" is an unacceptable criterion for a speaker's acceptance or rejection...
White repeatedly refers to affirmative action as "special treatment" for minority students. He denounces all forms of "special treatment" in college admissions, "whether the criterion is race, athletic ability, or legacy status." Yet White's position implies wrongly that these factors are extraneous to the credentials necessary for college admission...
When then-General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 chose 26-year Boston police veteran Paul E. Johnson to be Harvard's police chief in 1983, he made the choice largely on one criterion: professionalism...
...issue with Reeder. Crimson Key Society works very hard to dispel the stereotypes about the "typical" Harvard student. I feel strongly that there is no typical Harvard student. If a prospective student leaves an admissions tour learning nothing else, s/he has learned that there is no formula, no minimum criterion for a Harvard student...
Moreover, even in ostensibly neutral teaching environments such as public schools, an ideology is transmitted (if only by default) through a teacher's methodology and personal opinions. Why is religion alone an illegitimate criterion for distinguishing desirable from undesirable learning environments, when other factors such as ethnic identity and political ideology enter into hiring decisions even at schools with no openly avowed philosophy...