Word: legacyism
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Recently, The Crimson editorial board ("Is Harvard Really Innocent?" October 10) expressed its disgust with the University's legacy admissions policy. As leaders of campus minority organizations, we find The Crimson's characterization of this controversy as a minority issue inappropriate. Also, the portrayal of minority students as embracing legacy...
That's not always the easiest thing for a Harvard student to do. Sometimes a 19-year legacy of nearly unblemished success makes the admission of imperfection or failure just a tad difficult. It's hard to watch your luck run out.
If legacy applicants are indeed just as qualified as other applicants, Harvard might actually have a moral obligation to admit them. It is not necessarily a sign of elitism to give preference to members of families that have done so much to build the University, both monetarily and (more importantly...
Furthermore, if there is any heritage that Harvard wishes to hold onto, legacy applicants most likely have a claim to being a living part of the University's institutional memory. Harvard's monetary arguments may be exaggerated, but that does not mean preference for legacies is immoral.
Furthermore, these groups seem reluctant to take issue with Iraq's claim to sovereignty over Kuwait. They hold a view similar to that of King Hussein of Jordan: that the legitimate claim of Kuwait to independence is a fossilized remnant of British imperialism, and that Iraq's claim cannot be...