Word: legacyism
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What utter nonsense, what Orwellian doubletalk is the statement of Dean of Undergraduate Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67 that Harvard's policy of giving special consideration to legacy students helps ensure need-blind admissions! Many legacy students are admitted only because of their legacy status--due, says Fitzsimmons, at least...
So how is this need-blind? Many legacy applicants are admitted, Fitzsimmons seems to be conceding, solely due to their lack of need. They take spots away from other applicants who may be better qualified but are not legacies, and therefore are more likely to be in need of financial...
This facet of the diary, more than any other, has prompted comment and dismay from the current standard-bearers of the literary establishment, who have launched a lively controversy in the pages of such mass circulation journals as the New York Review of Books about the Mencken legacy in American...
Minority groups, with few exceptions, have not made the legacy policy a leading item on their agendas. Perhaps some minority activists fear that questioning preferential treatment for legacies would cast doubt upon affirmative action admissions. But the issues are conceptually distinct. Preference to minority groups counterbalances years of discrimination and...
The silence of other Harvard students, especially the campus Left, is equally surprising. Perhaps Harvard students are content to let their own children benefit from an unjust policy to the detriment of others. More likely, students, faculty and administrators take legacy policy as a given, a part of Harvard tradition...