Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McInally left with everything except an Ivy League football championship for himself, and while McDermott was no glamor boy, his glamorous moments as a junior during the 1975 season copped the Crimson its first outright championship ever...
Jewett admits with a slightly nervous laugh that you could interpret this trend as a hidden quota system. "I cannot disprove it except by having a bad year," he says, "and I hope we'll never have to prove it that way." Still, some critcism has come on the heels of the Bakke case which contends that Harvard does indeed strive for uniformity of "diversity." Justice Harry A. Blackmun, quoted in an article in "New Republic" by Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, says, "under a program such as Harvard's one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does...
Harvard owns over 7 million square feet of property in Boston, including the Medical and Dental Schools and some residential housing. Fair Share estimates the tax value at $16 million, but non-profit institutions are legally exempt from property taxes except in the case of the residential holdings...
...Bakke decision might have been different if the Court had come down strongly for or against affirmative action. But the Court's wishy-washiness, combined with the fact that no Harvard graduate program except the Med School has a special minority admissions structure, meant that the Bakke decision hit the University's graduate admissions like a pebble plopping into sand...
...reality, there's nothing ecclesiastical at all about the Harvard cross country program, except for the exhausting pre-season training regimen, which is enough to drive even the stoutest soul to desperate prayer...