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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bailey questioned the lack of pre-education tutors in the houses, especially because there are pre-med, pre-law, and pre-business tutors. "You're not going to get that faculty if you're not promoting it from the student body right here," she said...
...trends have emerged that threaten the fundamental proposition of diversity as Harvard perceives it, especially over the long term. For every group besides Asian-Americans, admissions rates remain below national representation levels. Meanwhile, leaders of all student groups express concern that as competition increases among minority applicants, economic diversity among the students will decline...
...more troubling pattern common in non-minority admissions may be appearing in that of minorities as well--with more devastating results. The trend is this: as the number of qualified, diverse student applicants increases, the pressure Harvard faces to recruit economically disadvantaged students actually decreases. For instance, when more Hispanic student applicants from outside the Southwest and from wealthier backgrounds gain admission--as happens as the Hispanic community grows--those in the barrios and inner cities face higher odds against admission...
...STUDENT debate this week has centered around a variety of misconceptions about ROTC and its role on campus. Here is a list of some of the implicit and explicit policies espoused by ROTC...
...Undergraduate Council's call to reinstate ROTC on campus violates every tenet of its anti-discrimination policy. Should Harvard University decide to allow ROTC back on campus, it will violate its own anti-discrimination policy as well. Inconveniencing a Harvard student with traveling to MIT--in council terms, known as "discrimination against the economically disadvantaged"--justifies this flagrant disrespect for all minority groups on campus...