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Trudel says he is no longer interested in seeking redress from Harvard. "But I still keep in touch with my friends over there," he said, "and Harvard still owes me my two weeks severance...
...perceive that Harvard-Radcliffe is academically and financially viable for them, and that it can potentially provide a positive environment for their education. The Admissions Office agrees wholeheartedly with this view of the present situation and has shown reticence only in the implementation of strategies purposefully designed to redress its inadequacies. Even Nathan Glazer and his equally controversial book, which Mr. Karnes artfully injected into the context of his polemic, concedes the acceptability of improved programs aimed at "advertising opportunities actively, seeking out those who might not know of them, and preparing those who might not yet be qualified...
...School student body. The Bowman case had become a cause celebre there, the focus of a controversy unusual for the school. Throughout the winter and spring, angry students confronted the Law School administration and the Placement Committee, demanding it investigate Bowman's case and offer her some redress, either by banning the firm's recruiters from the campus or at least by severely chastising the firm. Finally, the administration was forced to go further than it ever has on such matters, calling in the outside investigator that the Placement Committee's bylaws provide...
This brings me to Harvard's use of Title IX in reverse. The intent of Title IX was to redress iniquities that have arisen as a result of an institution's history of discrimination. All the institutions that have generated our presentday Western reality and values have such a history. Title IX not only exempts programs designed "to overcome the effects of past exclusion," but "requires remedial action to overcome the effects of previous discrimination." I honestly do not understand how Title IX can be warped to apply to the selection of feminists and/or women for the kinds of courses...
Last Wednesday's vote at the Graduate School of Design denying "remedial action" to Chester A. Hartman '57, effectively ends Hartman's seven-year battle for redress of his non-hiring, which he has alleged was based on his leftist political beliefs...