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...personages of a divided Supreme Court in the Bakke case. Four justices agreed that the University of California at Davis Medical School had discriminated against white applicant Alan Bakke by maintaining a special minority admissions structure including quotas. Four other justices held that race should be a criterion in admissions decisions, in the interest of a diverse student body, like Harvard's. Justice Lewis Powell went both ways...
...this light, it is disturbing that Lawrence Stevens '65, a University spokesman, is apparently reverting to examination of United States firms employment practices in South Africa to decide if Harvard should call for their withdrawal from South Africa. Such a criterion totally neglects the corporations' role in supplying advanced technology, military equipment, and finance to the white-minority regime. As all United States corporations together employ 70,000 blacks in South Africa, to see how any improvement in their workers conditions will break down apartheid. At the same time, U.S. investors provide such crucial inputs as oil (40 per cent...
...there must be some people who are dedicated solely to the President, people who go flat out for this particular President. For me the criterion is, 'What's best for Jimmy Carter...
...intelligent people, are subjected to arbitrary and subjective decisions about receiving playing time. A method to improve the player selection process may be to have the players themselves pick the line-up on the basis of practice performance. This method ensures a sense of objectivity as the only criterion for selection is outstanding performance. While this may seem a bit drastic, the point to be emphasized is that there is room for improvement in the Harvard system. All that choose to devote as much time and energy as is demanded by football should be given a fair and equal chance...
...University," she says. "Research grants create an intellectual atmosphere and bring new fun's in. Good teachers create an intellectual atmosphere too, but they don't bring new funds in." Krupnick finds, however, that belief in the tradeoff is disappearing as good teaching ability looms larger as a criterion for employment at many universities, if not at Harvard. Besides, Krupnick says, people here value teaching ability more than is rumored. "I have never heard anyone say, 'Oh, he's nothing but a good teacher...