Word: scholarships
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Harvard and other universities across the nation are suffering from a rapidly advancing malaise--an overdose of ethnic separatism that is poisoning true scholarship and perverting our understanding of what it is to be American...
...toss around terms like "multiculturalism," but we no longer know what they mean. Indeed, our definitions have become distorted, twisted around. Once we spoke of assimilation and a "melting pot;" now, a new breed of scholarship emphasizes a curious form of academic segregation. Where once we studied and learned American history, now we study Afro-American, Asian-American and other ethnically-defined histories. And we do it in the name of multiculturalism...
...lion's share of credit for the success of the program, using Harvard's resources and his own reputation to lure well-established professor from other universities to Cambridge. In light of the serious problems confronting many other African-American studies departments across the country--including allegations of shoddy scholarship, anti-Semitism and politicized teaching--the achievements of Harvard's program are even more remarkable...
Moreover, if the issues is discrimination--in this case against homosexuals--then the University needs to admit an inconsistency in its policies. Harvard, after all, accepts numerous scholarships from other groups and foundations that discriminate on the basis of race and gender. There is an obvious difference in rationale behind the discrimination; we find the exclusivity of a minority scholarship much more acceptable than ROTC's ban, for example, but discrimination is present is both cases...
Following faculty objections to a scholarship program with CIA ties, the Faculty Council Wednesday created a committee to decide whether Harvard will formally permit its students to receive Department of Defense grants...