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Alexiades will enter Harvard Medical School after spending a year in Greece on a Fulbright grant. The Westinghouse award winner has conducted biology research for several professors. Her thesis was on the "transcriptional and translational photoregulation of nuclear and chloroplast genes in two strains of rice and their progeny," according to a Radcliffe news release...
...would argue that there are at least four reasons why faculty diversity is in the interest of the Harvard community. First, the fact that the faculty is the least diverse of all groups within an educational institution speaks volumes about what it values in teaching and research. Ideas of merit, then, come to reflect the perspective of a society which has utilized this criteria in order to historically maintain racial domination, such that objective justice dictates that Harvard should erect a corrective standard which provides equal opportunity. However, if one reads the responses of Harvard's academic leaders...
Second, the effect of a more diverse community of scholars upon the academic life of the institution would be important, in that it would be yet another enriching ingredient for the enterprises of administration, teaching, learning and research. How is it possible for truly liberally educated individuals to decide a priori that a great body of knowledge is useless, or that whole groups of people (with some rare exceptions) are incapable of achieving--if, indeed, the search for truth is the issue in every field? And how is it possible to build an anti-racist educational environment where educational leadership...
...should correct some wrong impressions which may arise out of the generally well-written and informative article on the Russian Research Center which appeared in your issue of May 26. In the first place, our center was not "founded with the help of the U.S. government," but has always been supported by non-government funds, foundations, and private donors. I think your article may also convey the impression that the Center was in a condition of intellectual decline in the late 1960s and through the 1970s. While it is true that our funds declined in that period, there was then...
...hope these remarks will help clarify the role of the Russian Research Center in the overall Harvard environment. Adam B. Ulam Director, Russian Research Center...