Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would like to commend Spencer Hsu for his February 11 editorial on Asian-American admissions. As Hsu astutely observes, it is unrealistic to attribute the disparity between white and Asian-American admissions rates to a deliberate, systematic quota system. Those who look for such a system are not only wasting their time but also draw attention away from the real, subtle problems of discrimination inherent in our universities and other aspects of our society. Such persons make the same faulty and dangerous assumptions as do Harvard University and persons like William Pao, who believe that the absence of specifically anti...
News Editor for this Issue: Jeffrey S. Nordhaus '89 Night Editors: Andrew J. Bates '90 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Mark M. Colodny '89 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Benjamin R. Miller '89 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Editorial Editors: David J. Barron '89 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Features Editors: Julie L. Belcove '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Sport Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editor: Hector I. Osario '89 Business Editor: Kenneth M. Richman '90 Copy Editor: Steven J.S. Glick...
...Spencer S. Hsu's article entitled "Asian-American Admissions: Subtle Discrimination Reflected in Admissions" (February 11, 1988) is an emotional outburst that is based upon ill-founded premises and which proposes an illogical solution. Hsu concludes that because admission rates for Asian-Americans are less than that of their white peers, Harvard is guilty of racial discrimination. Although he admits Harvard has no quota system, Hsu claims that Harvard's standard for admission places the "average" Asian-American applicant at a disadvantage, and thus, indirectly practices racial discrimination. Hsu demands that Harvard eliminate this difference in acceptance rates; if this...
News Editor for this Issue: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Martha A. Bridegam '89 Ross G. Forman '90 Shari Rudavsky '88 Copy Editor: Spencer Hsu '90 Editorial Editor: Matthew H. Joseph '88 Photo Editor: Brian Williams '91 Features Editor: James E. Schwartz '88 Sports Editor: Casey Speedy Lartigue Business Editor: Willa Berghuis...
...conference included speeches, panel discussions and problemsolving workshops run by business and education experts such as Edson Spencer, chairman of Honeywell, and Allan Bloom, author of the bestselling book "The Closing of the American Mind...