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...requesting the chance to apply for transfer for next semester, the visiting freshmen from Tulane University are not asking Harvard to compromise its standards or cross any ethical boundaries. Instead, we are seeking the reasonable treatment of a complex issue. The immediately obvious objection to allowing us to submit transfer applications is that our transferring would violate an agreement with Tulane to return all visiting students and that such an application is prohibited under Harvard’s visiting student policy...
...intention to return to campus, Tulane is not worried about losing a handful of students to Harvard. Tulane is not interested in depriving students of their liberty and forcing them to return to New Orleans. Our applying to Harvard is sanctioned by Cowen, so any arguments opposing the transfer of Tulane freshmen must be rooted in the interests of Harvard and its student body...
While it is true that visiting student policy prohibits transfer applications—and that we were accepted to Harvard this fall as visiting students—such rules must be reconsidered in light of the unique situation Hurricane Katrina has created. It must be recognized that these rules were not designed to apply to freshmen. Under normal circumstances, only students who have completed a year at another university are eligible to apply to Harvard’s visiting student program, and all further rules were constructed under the assumption that visiting students had a home institution at which they...
...when the record is already yours, it makes the job a little bit easier. That was the situation facing swimming sensation Noelle Bassi on Friday evening in the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team’s 198-121 win over No. 24 Kansas. The junior transfer from Franklin Lakes, N.J. left Tennessee to come to Harvard last year and has since flourished in the Crimson garb. Bassi’s bread and butter is the 200-yard butterfly, and her previous best in the event was 1:59.29, a mark set at the 2005 NCAA Championships...
...policy was based on respect for the wishes of the university—the home institutions for the visiting students.” The Harvard admissions office has also told the eight Tulane freshmen that they must re-enroll at Tulane for the spring semester, but may apply for transfer to Harvard for next fall. Harvard Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman explained that the deadlines for transfer applications has already passed. “Harvard admits intercollegiate transfers in the spring for the next year’s fall or spring semesters. The group that has been selected...