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...Kennedy School of Government will do everything within its power to prevent a recent federal decision regarding financial aid from thwarting its attempts at increasing student diversity, Dean Robert D. Putnam told students at an open forum yesterday...
...Putnam's comments at the school's fourth "town meeting" of the year came in the wake of a Department of Education ruling issued earlier this week that financial aid granted solely on the basis of race is discriminatory and illegal. The dean said that although the Kennedy School will ultimately have to abide by the federal decision, University lawyers are working to ensure that at least those currently receiving ethnically-based scholarships can continue to receive them...
Harvard's a great school, and The Crimson ought to know it. The reponse repeatedly emphasizes the high level of achievement among Harvard's admitted classes. It brags about Merit Scholars, Westinghouse Science winners, Putnam Mathematics stars, Rotary, Fulbright and Marshall winners, ad nauseum...
...have also enrolled 90 of the 317 students who participated in the Research Science Institute of the Center for Excellence in Education in McLean, Virginia. Of this year's six National Advanced Placement Scholars, four chose Harvard and Radcliffe. Harvard undergraduates have won the Putnam Mathematics Competition for the fifth straight year. Harvard and Radcliffe students this year received 17 Rotary Scholarships; five Fulbright Scholarships; four Marshall Scholarships; and three Rhodes Scholarships. Harder to quantify is the remarkable rate of admission to first-rate graduate and professional schools achieved by Harvard and Radcliffe students...
...Frank Putnam of the Maryland-based National Institute of Mental Health counters that people with the disorder are no less honest than anyone else. But, he warns, "they may have trouble with memory of some facts, since amnesia is one of the complications of this condition." Peterson's trial, however, is one that no one else is likely to forget...