Word: lewises
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Lewis says he changed the title of the positionto better reflect the responsibilities associatedwith the job.
"The title 'Dean of Students' has never had thesame meaning here that it has had in otherplaces," Lewis says in February.
Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73 stresses to this day that Harvard does not use an "affirmative action" admission system.
To ensure that sufficient attention is given to racial and ethnic diversity, however, since the 1970s, the committee on admissions often employed an additional reader, explains Lewis, "to help the committee be sure that each candidate's particular circumstances (especially connected to ethnicity or culture) did not obscure the excellence...
This year brought an end to the role of that special "fourth" reader for minority applications. Fitzsimmons and Lewis agree that awareness at Harvard and in the rest of the nation have changed sufficiently that such an additional reader is no longer necessary.