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...bureaucrat, Franklin S. Reeder of the Office of Administration, made a valiant effort to keep at least the WhoDB Christmas card list "pure" by making sure it was beyond the reach of party fund raisers. But Reeder lost. Records show that more than 65,000 cards were sent to D.N.C. and Clinton campaign donors, perhaps in the hope they would send back cash...
...that it might be used by political enemies for "opposition research," jittery Administration officials yanked the index and the audio in mid-April. Impassioned fans of the home page noticed the absence and E-mailed the White House, leading to the return of the features last week. Says Frank Reeder, director of the White House Office of Administration: "Occasionally we lapse into human frailty and make mistakes. When we do, we fix them...
Although both the "evils" of grade inflation and Reeder's estimation that most Harvard students receive anywhere close to 70 percent A's are questionable, it is her more general assumption that all Harvard students arrive in Cambridge with straight A's that worries...
...member of the Crimson Key Society, I take particular issue with Reeder. Crimson Key Society works very hard to dispel the stereotypes about the "typical" Harvard student. I feel strongly that there is no typical Harvard student. If a prospective student leaves an admissions tour learning nothing else, s/he has learned that there is no formula, no minimum criterion for a Harvard student...
...unprepared for Harvard academics nor am I in the minority having come to Harvard without straight A's in high school. While academic excellence is perhaps the one common denominator among Harvard students, to reduce excellence to straight A's is both indiscriminate and inaccurate. I was disappointed by Reeder's interest in advancing her side of the argument at the expense of Harvard's reputation for diversity of all interests and abilities. Eryn E. Ament '95 Crimson Key Society