Word: thereness
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Morse said there was no special threat to Harvard students. "There's nothing that really pinpoints it to any place of particular concern," Morse said.
"There has always been a question of whether it was a fair provision, since people who were deeply engaged in activities were hit harder than students who were not active," said Henry C. Moses, the dean of first-year students.
But he said that a small pool of minorities makes Affirmative Action more difficult to institute. "There are not many minorities in biology that we can appoint," he said.
"Bad as the [minority candidate] pools are, there were minority candidates being hired elsewhere who were not getting interviewed here or who did not apply here," he said.
Neither Harvard nor the league has changed its position this year, said Harvard Associate Athletic Director Patricia Miller. "Basically, this is entirely outside the league," Miller said. "There's been nothing generated internally. There's no Ivy sanction. It's all been externally driven."