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...Black Students Association originally asked Bok to write an open letter on the status of minorities in November, following the disclosure of a controversial preliminary draft of a study prepared by Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant to Bok, which suggests that high test scores often overpredict the academic performance of women and minorities...
...from being an ivory tower, Harvard is an important think-tank for U.S. imperialism, training such notables as war criminal Henry Kissinger. Harvard is also the home of Klitgaard, whose racist "admissions report" calls for Blacks to leave this enclave of wealthy white privilege. Here lies the reactionary hypocrisy of the Harvard administration: Marxists are "outside agitators" and "security risks" while real criminals like Brzezinski and Harold Brown--nuclear-armed cold-warriors who are genuine "security risks"--are welcome guests and paid to mouth their imperialist propaganda at Harvard. The Harvard administration may well despise the SYL for being communists...
...preliminary report on Harvard admissions prepared by Bok's special assistant Robert E. Klitgaard '68 suggested that high test scores for minority students and women often overpredict academic performance. To show their displeasure, more than 200 students marched through the Yard and demonstrated outside Massachusetts Hall, presenting Bok with eight demands and threatening to occupy the building. The president of the Black Students Association, Lydia P. Jackson '82, received a death threat and a rape threat for her "political activities." These events corresponded with a number of national racially motivated incidents, including a cross-burning at Williams College. In response...
...death threat with the Yale Game influenced his low-key posture. But it should not surprise Bok or any other administrator that minority students grew, and are growing, increasingly disenchanted with the president's failure to take even a cosmetic, symbolic stand. After national circulation of the Klitgaard study, Bok vigorously apologized for any hurt caused by its disclosure, but issued no disclaimer of the report's findings. And these local events took place against a national backdrop of a Ku Klux Klan revival, an increase in racial tension in the South, and the election of a president who stands...
...also said he "did not ask Mr. Klitgaard to investigate the abilities or performance of particular groups of students--either by sex, race, or religion," adding that he "was truly sorry about any hurt that has resulted from the incident...