Word: policiese
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As the search for a new Dean of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) continues, students and administrators say they want a leader who will continue former Dean Ronald F. Thiemann's policies aimed at rejuvenating Harvard's oldest teaching endeavor.
"I cannot imagine any circumstances under which Harvard College would want to alter its present policies in this area," Lewis said in an e-mail message. "I do not think there is any justification for making some resources available to only one sex at Harvard."
However, faced with similar questions about exclusionary policies, Rita Nakashima Brock, the director of Radcliffe's all-female Bunting Institute, said last month that she would make the application process gender-neutral starting next year.
Harvard's women studies department does indeed introduce its students to a wide range of theories on gender difference. But by de-emphaisizing and wholly dismissing as a patriarchal fiction anything "natural" or "biological," they misplace the proper emphasis. Most scientific research reveals that biology influences gender roles to a...
Today, the Gold Coast glitters no longer. But even with current randomization policies, the question of elitism at Harvard remains. The College is accused of admitting students based on money and social standing rather than academic achievement. Miller claims that times have certainly changed.