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...FALL of 1980, The Crimson disclosed a preliminary report prepared by one of Bok's special assistants which purported to show that high test scores for Blacks and women tend to overpredict their academic performance while in college. The Klitgaard report caused much controversy, for many Blacks argued that the study's premises threatened their right to be at Harvard. Bok refused to disavow the report, instead planing the blame for the upset on the study's disclosure...
Readers of Beyond the Ivory Tower will find that chapter four, "Access to the University and Racial Inequality," functions as an effective rebuttal to the Klitgaard report, although it is never mentioned by name. Bok questions the merits of the assumptions underlying meritocracy, contending that there exist "reasons for preferring minority applicants quite apart from a desire to stone for past discrimination." The rationale for preferential admissions policy, gives a large pool of qualified applicants, entails the contributions minority students can make in later life, the value of increasing racial understanding among students at a college level, and the reaping...
More recently the Crimson in its eagerness to further propagate myths of minority incompetence, rushed to publish parts of the Klitgaard Report, which was incomplete, inaccurate, and degrading to minorities. The Klitgaard Report purported that Black students, who were displacing "more qualified" Jewish students, would be better off at lesser white schools...
...multitude of issues will soon face Harvard's already existing international infrastructure. One of the problems the centers will have to deal with is likely to be the orientation of development programs. Klitgaard points out that work in development is done primarily by social scientists, "yet we give most to the Third World in hard sciences. There is no doubt that scientists and humanists will have to work together even more than they presently are." Klitgaard says...
Money will also be an issue. Most internationalists agree that it is impossible to define an optimal budget and because of this, many-of Harvard's international programs get caught in a "never-enough syndrome." Klitgaard stresses that internationalists must present a specific agenda for their money needs. "We should find problems we can have a big impact on," he says, "and not just make a lobbying effort in the name of international work in general. This reduces internationalists to being like any other group...