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University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger has long been known as First Amendment scholar. Recently, however, he has been forced to read up on a different section of constitutional law. In a stinging defeat on an issue which Bollinger has championed, U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman ruled in late March that the Michigan law school had to abandon its affirmative action policy because it was “indistinguishable from a straight quota system...
...among schools eager to win kids away from Princeton--or any other college above them in the perceived pecking order. As a result, observes James Monks of M.I.T.'s Consortium on Financing Higher Education, "financial aid is no longer viewed as a charitable means of admitting a 'poor scholar,' but rather as a price discount to which an applicant is entitled and which is subject to negotiating and bargaining...
Carlos J. Ledezma, a first-year at Harvard Medical School and an HSF scholar, echoed Tucker's sentiment...
...would be nice to have a list [of Scholars]," said Miguel A. Segovin, who is a third-year Divinity School Student and HSF Scholar. "Unless people tell you, you really don't know...
...make your millions in business and obsessed with the size of our endowment, I wonder how hard it would be to give us a new perspective on Commencement day—something other than the importance of money and the economy. Why not consider a noted ethnic studies scholar, a grassroots political activist, an outstanding teacher, a humanitarian or (dare I say it) a woman to send us into the real world? I hope that in future years Harvard will be able to break out of its narrow-minded rut and, if nothing else, choose a Commencement speaker...