Word: unfairness
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...don’t think Dean Rinere realized how unfair this application process either could be or could be perceived” to be, he said...
...Owusu-Kesse said he didn’t understand why prefrosh weekend is held while a party ban is in place. “Better planning could have occurred so that prefrosh weekend did not take place on the same weekend [as the MCAT exam], as it is unfair to prefrosh and to those students who aren’t taking these tests,” he wrote in an e-mail. Last year, prefrosh weekend did not fall on the same weekend as the MCAT test. The Boston Globe reported last March that Harvard undergraduates gave lower ratings...
...respect for the law, then state their opposition to “amnesty.” Illegal immigrants have broken the law, they argue, and should face the consequences—deportation or, at least, criminalization to induce them to leave. “Amnesty” is deemed unfair to the millions who wait patiently to enter the country legally. If illegal immigrants are granted “amnesty,” House Republicans maintain, we encourage law breaking, with chaos as the predictable result...
...Labor Action Movement (SLAM) to use their leverage as Harvard students to help the Miami workers at an event at 45 Mt. Auburn Street this Saturday. More than 100 Miami janitors have been striking for six weeks and 10 have been on a six day hunger strike to protest unfair working conditions and low wages. The janitors are employed by UNICCO Service Company, one of the nation’s largest private facilities maintenance companies. Harvard outsources much of its janitorial work to UNICCO. The janitors are working with the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), which helped janitors at Harvard...
Students will be allowed to get minors based on completely arbitrary reasons, such as how many core classes they happened to take in freshman year. And since many things at Harvard—from admissions to recruiting—are a zero-sum game, an innovation this late is unfair, as it arbitrarily privileges some students over others. Secondary fields should not apply to any students currently at the College...