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...Knowles acknowledges that the size of department faculties should—at the very least??remotely reflect the size of their student bodies. He writes, “we must obviously be responsive to the pressures of student enrollment, if only to ensure that some groups of colleagues are not much more taxed than others.” This “obvious” point is thenceforth ignored...
...whether or not newly punched students should consider joining final clubs, the answer is yes, that a student should—at the very least??consider membership. Final clubs certainly do not cause lasting harm to Harvard. Even if one believes these institutions foster social-ladder-climbing, this is hardly scarring...
...mother works with a large number of Asian-American students, almost all of whom are recent arrivals from China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand. She went on to detail the superhuman—to me at least??exertions of her students and their parents. Yes, the “hard working immigrant” is a standby American cliché, but the people I had described to me were dedicated in a way that I can only vaguely imagine...
...school because of hostile communities and families, likely would be unable to denote their homosexuality on an application. Instead, students who have grown up in more tolerant settings in which they are comfortable discussing their sexual orientation openly—that is, the students who need affirmative action the least??would benefit the most. The implementation of affirmative action for gay applicants, then, could end up working against itself.To be sure, applicants who have, in fact, overcome some sort of adversity or obstacle as a result of their sexual orientation, should be recognized for doing so?...
...punch invitation. I won’t try to cast this as a particularly heroic act—obviously, it wasn’t. But my experience did convince me that principles and privileges don’t mesh well, and that temptation—in my world, at least??doesn’t tend toward the better of these...