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...following are excerpts from the preliminary report on admissions by Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant to President...
Forman, who has spoken out, has earned the distrust of the administration. When the Klitgaard Report--a controversial draft study on Harvard admissions--leaked out last fall, administrators confronted her to see if she was responsible...
...Student Assembly--formed three years ago with the same high hopes now attending the Dowling proposal--demonstrates that a student government will not necessarily address the most pressing issues facing undergraduates. The Student Assembly has abrogated its responsibility on the most important issues facing the University community. When the Klitgaard report came out, did the Student Assembly rush to demand Bok's reassertion of the goal of diversity in admissions? What about draft registration, especially the university's role in turning over names? What about student input into tenure decisions, especially for Skocpol and Lange? Finally, the Student Assembly refused...
...letter must be viewed in its proper context. It was, in effect, prepared and released at the request of a University-wide coalition of Third World students--it constitutes a reaction. Had the preliminary draft of the Klitgaard report on admissions not been disclosed, had the president of the Black Students Association not received a death threat, and had the Gomes committee not stopped short of recommending the establishment of a campus Third World center, Bok probably would have considered continued silence a more "opportune" strategy...
...general, however, the letter tells us little that is news. Bok has yet to explain adequately the Klitgaard report. He identifies the shameful shortage of minority faculty, but offers no solution besides "vigorous" recruitment. He neglects to note that since 1972, the available number of qualified Black PhD's has doubled while Harvard has failed to double its tenured Black professors. And, in the most heavily-qualified and tentative portion of the letter, Bok says he "will advocate support" for the recently proposed Foundation, "modestly at the beginning" and only "if there is genuine interest in this project...