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...reserved for the top-scoring minority student among the top 25, and if no such minority student existed, the fifth spot would go to the woman with the highest grades.Two days after the adoption of this policy, three editors—including one woman—resigned in protest. In response, the Review’s leadership convened to reconsider their plan, opting for a non-quota system that would merely take race and gender into consideration. But despite the modification, the Review continued to encounter opposition from students, alumni, and most importantly, from the faculty.THE FACULTY VOTES NO-CONFIDENCEIn...
...Kristof was The Crimson’s “Campus News” tracker, following developments in higher education outside Harvard. He placed a particular focus on Boston University, where faculty and staff had recently gone on strike to protest the controversial policies of the school’s president, John R. Silber...
Getting into the College is one thing. Thriving, at least for some black students and women, may be altogether different, a 1982 Harvard report suggested.Two hundred students threatened to storm Mass. Hall on an October day in 1980 to protest the report, written by a special assistant to then-University president Derek C. Bok. The report suggested that black students and women at the University perform poorer academically than their test scores would predict.The assistant, Robert E. Klitgaard ’68, also suggested in his findings that affirmative action might not be working, that it’s unclear...
...problem, the University in 1978 formed Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE), a non-profit company that would manage Harvard’s non-academic property holdings.Within three years, HRE, under the stewardship of Sally Zeckhauser, had angered tenants so much that they formed the Harvard Tenants Union (HTU) to protest allegedly unfair rent increases and negligent management.The tensions came to a head at 7 Sumner Rd., an apartment building that the Graduate School of Design bought in the 1970s with the intention of converting into offices.The University began emptying the building by leaving apartments vacant when their tenants left...
...grounds, which were just as obvious when it had ordered his release, that the facts of his case precluded any "honest mistake" defense. It looked like a victory for people power. Even so, it has left people feeling uneasy that in an area this important, they had to protest...