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...record straight: I do not feel that it will hurt the incoming Freshman Class in any way if that class is cut by 25 to 50 men. The diversity in the class will not be altered and there will be no reduction in our effort to recruit students from disadvantaged backgrounds...
...evidence to show that is true--Bok doesn't bother to discuss why women have avoided the sciences. Medical schools and engineering firms have traditionally discriminated against women applicants. Parents have discouraged their daughters from entering these fields. If Harvard has difficulty finding potential female scientists, it should recruit them. But Bok's second argument, like his first, ignores current data and, relying on the statistics of a shameful past, bolsters a discriminatory system...
Reardon said yesterday that the admissions board will recruit in the Spanish-speaking community in its efforts to bring the disadvantaged to Harvard. "We will especially be looking for disadvantaged students from the Boston area as well as for Mexican-Americans," he added...
...university has indeed gone out of its way to recruit and admit blacks, Chicanes and American Indians, and has earned a reputation as a leader in redressing minority imbalance in the student population. Though Judge Shorett specified that his ruling applied only to De Funis, the university is concerned about the impact of the decision and will appeal to the state supreme court. The argument will likely be that traditional tests reflect middle-class white values and so entitle the university to use special means of evaluating minority applicants. Moreover, says Law Dean Richard Roddis: "We are trying to bring...
...last ten years or so, Harvard football fans have been able to rely on certain recurring themes. Every year, Harvard would recruit enough talent to play in the Big Ten, and the freshmen coaches and the various local diversions would waste it. Coach John Yovicsin consistently stayed with his dive, sweep, incompletion offense, and if the defense was good, the Crimson would plod to a three-way tie for second...