Word: steiner
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...Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, announced this week that Harvard will submit an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, supporting the affirmative action admissions policy at the University of California at Davis Medical School...
...terms "more" and "less" qualified can be limiting and misleading, Steiner said yesterday. There are "educational advantages" to having a diverse student body, but diversity should not be equated with inferiority, he said...
There are many more academically capable students applying to colleges and professional schools than the institutions generally have room to admit, but admission decisions should be based on more criteria, Steiner said...
Members of minority groups are poorly represented in many professions, and "colleges and universities have an obligation to try to increase those numbers," Steiner said. The California ruling, if upheld, would bar certain institutional attempts to improve these balances...
...part, Steiner said, Harvard "seeks to bring excluded groups into the mainstream" but has no formal admissions quotas...