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...aside from seeming impractical, Harvard's stratospheric tenure standards raise philosophical questions. Holding up eminence as the most important criterion in scholarship runs the risk of discouraging unorthodox innovation. Eminent professors, after all, in many cases gained their reputations by breaking away from the eminent scholars of their youth. The list of current luminaries whom Harvard once rejected for tenure includes Nobel-laureate Paul Samuelson, now an MIT economist and the popular astronomer Carl Sagan, currently at Cornell...
...ideological property of the women's movement, a tendency which leads naturally to the temptation to dismiss her male supporting characters as evil insensitive foils for the struggling females. The temptation is false, through: Atwood's men, though by no means models of balance, meet her "real people" criterion of complexity, and her feminism is of a healthy, direct sort...
...want to see the book of an exceptional individual used by others to make a general case." Rodriguez, who now lives simply in a small San Francisco apartment, shares that concern. Says he: "I've always been in favor of affirmative action, but only if class was the criterion rather than race...
...CONDEMNING the President's relaxation of a affirmative action guidelines, though. Rosovsky's report lays itself open to a more fundamental criticism. The Administration's laid back approach to enforcing hiring codes is only one facet of its broader attack on the use of need as a criterion and diversity as a goal in higher education...
Short of making financial information unavailable to admissions committee, there seems no way to keep colleges--especially those with fixed budgets--from using aid as a criterion to settle hard cases. We can only reiterate our hope that Harvard has yet to reach this crisis point. The College's recent allocation of an additional $100,000 in Faculty funds allocated to the admissions and financial aid budget to maintain aid-blind admissions offer much encouragement...