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...Harvard announces its yield for the Class of '93 to be 71 percent, 1 percent off last year's level. Asian-American students amount to over 17.4 percent of the class, a record by 3 percent over previous levels. Minority student representation reaches 32 percent, also a record, about a point and a half above earlier levels. Hispanic students also were admitted at record highs, and reached about 6 percent of the class. Black student representation, however, remains set at about 8 percent...
Supporters of the amendment denied racist motives, and claimed that many students opposed the amendment--which lost by a margin of 40 percent--because it was associated with the relatively conservative Federalist Society...
Teaching staff who are not enrolled at Harvard, known as teaching assistants, currently constitute 15 percent of the Core teaching staff...
With Verba's ever-lengthening list of faculty positions, it was no surprise that Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence tapped the government scholar to chair a committee charged with proposing a new affirmative action strategy at a time when only about 8 percent of FAS' tenured faculty are women and 7 percent are minorities...
...During our meetings he was very approachable and a very reasonable guy," says Minority Students Alliance spokesperson Wendell C. Ocasio '90. "Although I'm not 100 percent pleased with what he did, he did it very professionally...