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...challenge was a little stiffer last year after the release of a preliminary report by Robert E. Klitgaard '68, associate professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and special assistant to President Bok. The so-called "Klitgaard report" stated that Blacks and other minorities who do well on aptitude tests do not perform as well academically as their scores would seem to predict. It also envisions the possibility that Blacks might be more comfortable at a "lesser" university where their intellectual abilities would more closely match those of other students...
...Klitgaard report elicited strong reaction from around the campus, including a disgruntled admissions office. "The great tragedy is that students here and the general public as well may erroneously believe that Professor Klitgaard's preliminary draft represents either general University opinion or even the conclusions of some individual admissions offices at Harvard. This misconception could cause severe harm to the admissions goals of the University..." a statement from the undergraduate admissions office said...
Questions about racism at Harvard attracted national attention in mid-October, when a preliminary report on admissions, prepared by Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant to President Bok, sparked controversy because of its claims about the aptitude and performance of certain ethnic groups. The so-called "Klitgaard report" states that women and minorities at top universities often do not perform as well academically as their high aptitude-test scores would predict, and it adds that Jewish students often do better academically than their scores would indicate...
...report, and other administrators attempted to allay fears that the document might adversely affect Harvard's admissions policies, more than 200 incensed students rallied in the Yard and marched through University Hall in late October, demanding an increased commitment to affirmative action and an official public denial of the Klitgaard report...
Although Bok refused to hold up completion of a final Klitgaard report--which should be finished this summer--the University did acquiesce to another request from minority students: the establishment of a "Third World Center." But the proposal submitted in late January by the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and his committee did not quite fit the model Third World students had envisioned. Instead of advocating a University-funded center primarily for Third World students, the committee--commissioned by Bok in the wake of Spring 1980 requests--recommended the creation...