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Never mind that more than ten thousand applicants to Harvard are rejected each year, many of them salutatorians or even valedictorians of their respective high school classes. What made Stonecypher so sure that he had been screwed was the fact that Harvard accepted his African-American classmate, Eugenia Kay Harris...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Stonecypher's Suit of Sour Grapes | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

Grades are not objective because academic expectations and requirements vary from school to school, and even from class to class within a school. That may be why Eugenia Kay Harris was valedictorian if Mark Stonecypher's claims that the took more difficult courses are true. An `A' in underwater basketweaving may have the same effect on grade point average as an `A' in calculus, but they say different things about a person's academic ability. Similarly a `B' at one school (or from one teacher) may represent the same accomplishment as an `A' at another...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Stonecypher's Suit of Sour Grapes | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

Mark Stonecypher is a white male and was salutatorian of John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Ala. His classmate Eugenia Kay Harris is a Black female and was valedictorian...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: White Applicant Says Black Admit Favored | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

Mark Stonecypher is a white male and was salutatorian of John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Ala. His classmate Eugenia Kay Harris is a Black female and was valedictorian...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: White Applicant Says Black Admit Favored | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...addition, some sources said that the federal Office of Research Integrity had been made aware of the allegation of fraud. Dr. Kay Fields '63, senior scientist at the office, said she could not confirm or deny that the case had gone to her office...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Fraud By Grad Student Alleged In Gilbert's Lab | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

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