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When they encounter an alumni interviewer who is sending back inaccurate reports or damaging the school's reputation. Reardon and Jewett said they work subtly to have him switched to another kind of admission work. They can't "fire" anyone, since the alumni are all volunteers, but they can offer suggestions to the local alumni officials. Though they acknowledged that the committee must frequently compensate for the personal biases of an alumnus (i.e., a retired army colonel who can't stand anyone with more that 1:4 of an inch of hair), they said "bad" interviewers were fairly rare...
...make sure the machinery is working," Jewett said, "reaching key schools, working on special projects, such as minority recruiting or visiting certain areas...
...localized structure of Harvard's recruiting leads to some problems that contribute to the drop in the minority pool. According to Jewett, "they tend to be better organized in the better parts of the city than they are in the slums too life inner city." Reardon described a weak pool of Puerto Rican applicants from New York. "We ought to do better there, but I'm unable to get alumni to give it the time. Somebody's got to go visit some pretty tough schools." Another group this to the distance separating Cambridge from the Mexican-American pool. Reardon attributes...
...Jewett said that Harvard was not violating the spirit of the Massachusetts law, since it was enacted to prevent discrimination against minorities, not to stop programs of affirmative action. He added that he "guesses that the Massachusetts law would not be held applicable" and that the "doesn't think it will ever be enforced...
...reach out and contact the many promising students who for one reason or another have chosen not to apply here. The job will not be easy and it will require sustained, cooperative efforts by all of us over a period of many months, perhaps even years. L. Fred Jewett Dean of Admissions