Word: klitgaards
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Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant to President Bok and author of the admissions study, said yesterday the 300-page final draft is "perfectly innocuous," but declined to comment on whether it contains the controversial section on the later performance of minority and women students...
That section suggested that affirmative action programs may have undesirable results at universities like Harvard by creating a student body where Black students tend to receive lower grades than whites. Klitgaard emphasized then that the 55-page preliminary version represented only his ideas and did not make any policy recommendations...
...perhaps even greater concern to admissions officials has been the effect of the Klitgaard report on minority students here. They say that while the report has received some attention off campus, it has become common knowledge in Cambridge. Fitzsimmons says the increasing number of minority students attending Harvard in recent years is largely attributable to redoubling of recruitment efforts by Harvard's minority students, who now may have lost some of their enthusiasm. In addition, the report and complaints by rejected students appear to have put undue psychological pressures on Harvard's minority students, who may feel put upon...
...their part, secondary school counselors don't seem to think Harvard has much to worry about. Ralph Ferrara, head of the college office at Stuyvesant High School in New York, who first heard of the Klitgaard report on television, says it's hard to get enough feedback from his 800 students to know if the report had affected them. While he notes that many minority students are seeking a small school, where they can receive closer attention, Ferrara doesn't think the report alone tarnished Harvard's reputation...
While the men and women in Byerly Hall may worry a bit about the effects of the preliminary Klitgaard report, they want to hold off final judgement until the final report is released. But even if the next version is wanted down, it may not overshadow any negative results of the preliminary draft. On the other hand, the lure of the Harvard name may reign supreme--provided the admissions office continues to disassociate itself from Klitgaard's opinions. "Students that plan to apply to Harvard," the Stuyvesant High School counselor insists, "will apply anyway...