Word: klitgaard
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After reading The Harvard Crimson article of Friday, October 17th regarding Klitgaard's preliminary report on the performance of students at Harvard, and President Bok's reply in the Boston Globe, as a member of the Third World community at Harvard I feel compelled to respond...
Once again the Third World community at Harvard University has become the target of criticism and this time in the context of Mr. Klitgaard's "study". Firstly, I seriously question how Klitgaard obtained his information. In no part of the Harvard/Radcliffe admissions application is a student asked his religious affiliation. How then is it possible for Klitgaard to use Jewish students in his report. Secondly, I strongly resent Klitgaard's implication that Third World students are more suited to a less competitive academic environment, and that students perform poorer than their aptitude scores indicate. I don't believe that Klitgaard...
...addition to Klitgaard, The Harvard Crimson is also to be criticized for their gross insensitivity and irresponsible journalism. The Crimson obtained the contents of this report in a dubious manner since the report has not yet been made public. The story was sensationalized and no members of the Third World community or even the Office of Admissions were asked to respond before the story was printed. I can just add this article to a series of instances in which The Crimson has blatantly insulted Third World students...
...Klitgaard is quick to add that the findings are his ideas and are not policy decisions. But let's look at Harvard's policy decisions with respect to different parts of the student body...
...students at Harvard. Third World students representing Blacks, Africans, Chicanos, Boricuans, Asians, and Native Americans have called on Harvard to live up to its professed commitments to Third World students by providing a Third World Center. This demand is not unprecedented, for many of the "elite universities" (as Prof. Klitgaard calls them) have responded to similar demands of their Third World students and have provided Centers (Yale, Princeton, Wellesley, Dartmouth, etc.). Of course the university's response was the typical smoke screen--a committee. Perhaps alleged embezzlement/drug use does not merit committee investigation, nor even an investigation by legal authorities...