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...response to Harvard's admissions decision regarding Gina Grant, I wish to announce my own intention to rescind all promises and expectations of financial contributions to Harvard. As an alumnus and a member of the medical school faculty, I take a serious interest in the whole-someness of this institution. I am now appalled at the appearance of heartless and punitive rigidity in Harvard's choice to rescind Grant's admission...
...things stand, I am moved to take a stern position with respect to Harvard, and hence rescind my own commitments to give Harvard financial support. I hope that others will feel similarly moved. Stuart A. Pizer...
Harvard's recent decision to rescind the admission of Gina Grant represents a tragic event not only for Grant, but also for Harvard and for the concept of a juvenile justice as an opportunity for a second chance. Grant, who rebuilt her life after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter of her mother at age 14, is a model case of how child offenders can become productive citizens if given a chance to start anew...
Harvard has seized on Grant's alleged misrepresentation, however, as a weak cover for its decision to rescind her admission. In doing so, it has avoided the most significant issue--should someone who commits a crime, however grave, as a 14-year-old child, be allowed to rebuild her life and succeed in a new environment...
Gina Grant is indeed on trial again, but we cannot come to her defense. The College reserves the right to rescind offers of admission at its discretion if an applicant misrepresents facts or "engages in behavior that brings into question honesty, maturity or moral character." Surely Grant fulfills all of these criteria...