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While we are pleased that increasing numbers of women are admitted to Harvard each year, we do not believe that the College should aim to achieve a gender quota as the staff implies. The only just way to achieve gender equity is through a College policy of recruiting talented women and men with equal vigor and evaluating applications on a gender-blind basis. --Dan S. Aibel '98 --Alex M. Carter '00 --Missy R. Langsam '00 --Noah D. Oppenheim...
...would like to correct a misunderstanding which became the center-piece of the argument in the dissent to the staff editorial on March 18 concerning the conditions of release for the Alternative Senior Gift Fund. Contrary to what was stated, the ASGF does not include a quota based on availability statistics or any other numerical calculation in its conditions of release...
...little background into local goings-on, it becomes necessary for The Crimson to engage in very thorough explanations of Boston and Cambridge news events. However, this particular article was all background and no news. The article described the case in which a white student, Julia McLaughlin, challenged the existing quota system at the exams school and won her case, prompting a change in the admissions process. The Boston Latin admissions case was settled a year ago, and there have been no new developments for at least a few months. To an unsuspecting Harvard reader, the coverage of this event that...
...therefore kept out not because of their performance, but because of the failure of people of his race applying in sufficient numbers," says McLaughlin. "I'm sure there are many students who would have gotten in who are Asian or white who are being kept out by the new quota, and that is fundamentally unfair because we're talking about a governmental entity...
Previous proposals included a total abandonment of the racial quota system--a plan initially favored by Mayor Thomas M. Meni-no--but those suggestions have partly died down in the furor over the issue