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Radcliffe also suffered a 45 per cent cut in its federal grant for the National Guaranteed Student Loan program which provides federally-subsidized loans to students at an interest rate of only 3 per cent. This mix-up stemmed from the academic year 1976-77 when NGSL funds were denied to freshmen men so Harvard would have enough NDSL funds to continue the low-interest loans to upperclassmen. Radcliffe had plenty of NDSL money for all undergraduate women, but a number of freshmen women thought they too were ineligible and did not apply for the loans. When...
...undergraduate admissions program as a model for fair, non-discriminatory and most importantly quota-less affirmative action in university admissions. Justice Powell praised Harvard's use of the concept of "diversity" or weighting race as simply one of the many factors in an attempt to create a truly heterogenous student body and found that this sort of unspecified methodology was constitutional while the use of strict quotas...
...current admissions staff has more officers who are members of minority groups and all admissions officers have minority recruitment as part of their concern, Jewett says. The heart of the recruitment program, the student recruiters, has a new coordinator, Constance L. Rice '78, who succeeds Robert F. Young '74. Young was critical of the student recruiting program, saying that it lacked professionalism. Rice says this year students will have access to the office computers to write letters to a larger pool of potential applicants, and will be more coordinated with the efforts of administrators in Byerly Hall. "It will...
...rather play for our crowd than out there. It's not cut--throat. In the Big Ten the rans root, here they watch. The student bodies and alumni are so different, more like a family That's what makes it the Ivy League. When I graduate and go to a Harvard game I'll probably act the same...
...Bakke case. Four justices agreed that the University of California at Davis Medical School had discriminated against white applicant Alan Bakke by maintaining a special minority admissions structure including quotas. Four other justices held that race should be a criterion in admissions decisions, in the interest of a diverse student body, like Harvard's. Justice Lewis Powell went both ways...